--- In [email protected], par...@... wrote: > > "A new book out soon about a mail art pioneer who was sending weird things > through the post before Ray Johnson was even born!" And after that birth, > in high school, Ray began a relay of notes passed in class (I have a note > passed to "Pete" in 1943-1944, asking Pete to write back), and then, > uniquely, he founded a network of personal exchanges within the impersonal > postal > system. Bray's brilliant tests of the postal system have their profound > meanings, as with the mailings of Daniel Wenk in our own time. However, > Ray, who fathered nothing, certainly never founded "mail art," or claimed > to. > Bray's values in his trials of postal systems are quite different from the > moral value of reciprocities within Ray's original network of performative > mail events. He got strangers to participate in the overlapping friendly > relays of mail. The tiresome journalistic misrepresentation, that Ray was > "the father of mail art," needs to explain itself, or to be replaced with > the truth about his network. >
RAIN RIEN NEVERMIND BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER's POTATO MASHER WROTE :: Journalist Survive on Catch Phrases. YES WE CAN O WORMS ! Instead of " father of mail art " Ray Johnson the Event Tour of Performative Chorus Sponge Dance While @t least covertly accurate is TOO MUCH for Journalist to Wallow in... much less swallow HOOK LINE and SINK CORE. Marianne Moore's LAPELS Ray Johnson CLIP HEART
