I discovered that a thrift store in California, gets
way too many donations and a huge amount of stuff goes
into the trash. That can't be the only one. I think of
the huge amount of waste in the developed countries
and the lack of basics elsewhere. Then again I think
of beautiful traditional cultures with everything they
need, but as soon as they are exposed to modernity,
want to give it all up for TV sets, polyester
clothing, plastic toys, etc. Well, it's more
complicated than that.
If you sent me a blank card, I would probably paint on
it and send it back to you...
art is in the eye of the beholder.
- T
mail art rant....
Posted by: "Alice Kitselman"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] alicethebasketlady
Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:14 am (PST)
I'd recently dropped off a huge load of old
clothes to a thrift
shop that raises money for a local animal shelter.
I'd been thinking
about what happens to the stuff they don't sell?
Where does it go,
who gets it? I'd also been thinking about all the
stuff in department
stores that doesn't get sold.....
In my dream there were mountains made of stuff,
old stuff,
discarded stuff. People were taking shelter on
these piles which were
coming out of the ocean. Folks would trip and
slide and stuff would
go tumbling into the ocean and of course it would
rise giving the
people less and less area to be on.
I got to thinking about art. What makes art art?
Who says it is art
anyway? Recently I took an out of town friend to
our famous Folk Art
Museum. We walked and gawked. She started to
wonder and question why
certain things were considered folk art. Mostly
this is a huge
collection of toys. Of course there are many
things which are crafts
by native cultures from around the world. Again,
why is it folk art?
And then there is the distinction between art and
craft.....
And so, back to mail art. What makes something
"mail art"?
I get all kinds of stuff sent to me in the guise
of mail art.
Sometimes it's just a postcard, sometimes it is a
collage, other
times it's a mini water color painting. Sometimes
it's an envelope
stuffed with someone's food packaging.
Mail art......it' s mail, but is it art? We all
have choices in
life, practically everything we do involves a
choice....
I go into museums and see walls covered in art. I
pass quickly by
if nothing catches my eye. It could be famous
artist's work, but if
it doesn't "twang" in my heart and soul I just
cruise on by. I think
perhaps it helps that I grew up in New York City
across from a wild
and weird modern art museum. I saw a lot of stuff
that I would not
consider art. After all it still confounds me
today that era in art
where folks would simply paint a huge canvas white
and call that
art. ???
I wonder how folks would react if I just sent
blank postcards?
Dragonfly Dream
www.dragonflydream. com
"It's something wonderful to get a letter. The
paper, the stamp, the
envelope. It is not just a piece of paper. It is
something sacred. "
IBRAHIM ISMAIL ZAIDEN, a postman in Baghdad, Iraq.
(quoted in the New York Times)
Tamara Wyndham
http://www.tamarawyndham.com
"I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I
contain multitudes."
-- Walt Whitman
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