Mail Art Blog

If you want to participate in the mail art exchange, please mail something you've created (postcard, zine, collage, drawing, etc.) to: Ken B. Miller, PO Box 101, Newtown, PA 18940-0101 USA, and I'll send you one of my handmade postcards. Because of time constraints, I don't post everything I receive, but I might post a photo of your work here.

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Mail Art Call: DepARTures

Jul. 20, 2016: 12:17 | 24444

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DepARTures

Art as a map to find yourself and the meaning of things. The travel, a timeless theme, more than ever current in this time of great mutations, great migrations and transformations, has been chosen for this new initiative of Mail Art of international significance, now in its sixth edition.

Art has the privilege of being able to translate and synthesize dreams, showing expectations, desires and pain. Art draws maps to orient ourselves in a disjointed and fragmented world, marked by contradictions and tragedies, but also driven by ideals and utopian visions.

Art is the document of a journey through time and space, reading and interpreting the events inside and outside of us, an evidence of encounters and relationships, similarities and contrasts.

Art can be a means to steer and document stages of our inner journey, the trip into the soul of women and men. Art is a nautical chart that advises a possible route to regain what has been lost but we will never stop searching for.

This becomes even more interesting in this era where travel is also virtual, often only virtual. Virtual travels can't reach so deep and through the screen of a computer or a mobile phone we can only find a way of knowing the world in a more detached and superficial way, but no chance to change and evolve ourselves.

This means that the experience of travelling, as a path created by art, becomes a way to internalize and to realign the surrounding reality, reinterpreting everything that from the world comes to the conscience, the feeling and the deeper essence of the artist.

"DepARTures"/"eARThbound"
invites us to share an intimate look, often inscrutable, at the compass that makes us rediscover the route after the shipwreck, redesigning a man's travels between heaven and earth.

Thoughts, fears and madness represented by a gesture, a stroke of color by the artist, the tale of a mental journey in which words lose their importance.

It's up to us to immerse ourselves in this travel, where the eye is in harmony with the soul, in an unexpected and unpredictable dimension that creates a space with the signs of experience.

THE ARTIST IS NOT REQUIRED TO PAY ANY FEE
Deadline: September 20, 2016

The initiative includes the creation of an image – in free technique, on paper or cardboard:
- UNI A4 Size (cm 29,7 x 21,1)
- addressed to BIBLIOTECA COMUNALE - Piazza Cavalieri Caccia - 00060 Sant’Oreste – Rome (Italy);
- Insert in the envelope your personal data, contact information, and possibly a brief biography and some artistic references.

The works will be preserved as a heritage of the City of Sant’Oreste and later will be exhibited in art galleries, museums and elsewhere will be required to spread this kind of art form and to promote the artists.

Outgoing Mail Art: New Photocollages

Jul. 18, 2016: 21:51 | 23020

Some new potocollages in my series of pieces on old vacation and other photos...

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Outgoing Mail Art: Cardboard Collages

Jul. 18, 2016: 21:16 | 22380

Some more work using a grid with photographic collage and marker...

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Incoming Mail Art- PJM

Jul. 10, 2016: 20:53 | 22857

One of my oldest contacts, PJM from Bellingham WA, sent me an envelope with some mail art and flyers to let me know he's going to be restarting his venerable zine Node Pajomo. If you haven't checked out Node Pajomo, it's a relentlessly analog mix of zines, mail art and homemade music. He's expecting to have it ready later this year, but in the meantime send him your mail art calls, zines, bags of cash and/or CDs. It's worth it. There is no website or electronic presence at all... remember those days?