And now my "mail art" is nothing like it was 20 years ago...I keep thinking I will get back to that old free style, but I don't seem to get around to that either. I try not to judge, and hope others will do the same.
Nor do I have the time to keep records now, so some I "owe to" (yes - the guilt remains, but what happened to "guilt free" mail, anyway?) and some "owe" to me - no matter...I don't count. It's just great when I get some.
So as I said - no answers...just some random thoughts.
Fast
Alice Kitselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi gang,Last month I received a piece of mail art from someone I'd not heard from before. He sent me a decorated envelope with a bunch of daily junk in it. You know like receipts and pages from a calendar, food labels...... He asked what I thought of his mail art. Yikes, I thought. Well, to be honest I like to see a little more art in my mail art I ventured to say. I sent him back a print of you of my digital art pieces and decorated the envelope. His response was that he used to do drawing and perhaps one day he would send me one. He also said that maybe some folks are just "more serious" about their mail art. So this has got me thinking.....what in the world did he mean by that? Serious about mail art? I think long ago i was "serious" about mail art. I kept a file on my computer of names and addresses and what I'd sent to who and when. I updated my website at least weekly. I sent out mail art every day. I issued a few mail art calls over the years and posted the receivings on the website. I sent out documentation. I entered mail art calls left and right. I updated my lists.....it went on and on. It was fun. I really felt I was part of something. But over the years my lists became pages in a note book. I did not have the time or interest to update my site as often as I'd like to. I forgot to list what I sent to who... I no longer could keep up with entering mail art calls on my site and opted for a guestbook when folks could post their calls. And then as life would have it I faded out of mail art for a couple of years. The mail art kept arriving but I just could not keep up. Talk about GUILT!!! Eventually folks quit sending as much and some folks just kept on sending. Finally, finally I slowly got back into sending stuff out. I haven't made an artistamp in years. I really haven't sent stuff out to any calls. I pretty much gave up on keeping lists and send whatever I feel like out rather than worrying about it. So am I serious about mail art? Yes, I think so. But what is serious about mail art anyway?????????Dragonfly Dreamwww.dragonflydream.com"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."-- Laurie Anderson
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