> Geert, this makes me wonder: Just WHAT is mail-art, or in your opinion: what > SHOULD it be like? I myself are rather new to Mail-Art, so I really wonder > about this. Could you give me a clue ? > All the best, Annie - the Netherlands (housewife, but definitely not a > BORED one! )
I know that I always express strong opinions about this. I have nothing against housewifes, I am one myself. But what I see the past years is that it seems that some are bored of making cards with teabags and all other kind of things you can buy in hobby shops and which you can learn to do from booklets you can buy there. I do not know what it is called in English those hobby things. I saw many websites which say that it is Mail-Art, but all look the same. Buy some rubberstamps in a shop, put it on a postcard and voila it is Mail-Art. Cut some pictures out of a glossy magazine put it on a postcard and voila that is Mail-Art. What is Mail-Art? Mail-Art is communication. And a good communication start when there is difference. Only the past years I do not discover lots of difference anymore in Mail-Art. Where are opinions? I believe that when today somebody start with an action as a Decentralised Networker Congress it would not work at all. Because that is where many newcommeres are not interested at all. No, cutting out pictures out of glossy magazine and glueing on a postcard and sending out is the only thing they love to do. All the rest is just to difficult. I am sure that one day Mail-Art as it was in the 70's till the 90's will dissapear and that one day it will be only sending out postcards only. Am I wrong? Sztuka Fabryka ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Know an art & music fan? Make a donation in their honor this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/.6dcNC/.VHMAA/Zx0JAA/fuDrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
