Mail - Art




Here's something I've been wanting to do for sometime amongst friends (and any one else who's interested).

I've had a little time off for a medical procedure and I've come out of the pain-killer stage and found myself - as usual - doing art, and wondering what to do with it all.

The Big Idea

Here's How You Can Connect

If you want to play, contact me at anfurst@gmail.com. 
  1. Send me a snail mail address.
  2. You can use this postcard template. You don't need to send post cards. You can use envelopes, or packages, but there it is.
  3. The postcards provide a QR Code to this site with these instructions. Then if you send a post card to someone, they can join in.

A History of Mail Art

Now I'm following tangents on the trains of my thoughts, I stumbled upon a name, then more names, then a few words, a few websites, and then an art movement
 
A name:  Cecil Touchon - 

More Names: Ray Johnson, Anna Banana,

A few words: Touchon's interests and associations include the Collage/Assemblage community, Contemporary Fluxus, Massurrealism, Neoism, Post-Dogmatism, the Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry communities and the....

the art movement: Mail Art communities, including Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School and Fluxus movements.





























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