No. 7 - Mail Art
The gift of your versatile voice, your rabblerousing, intriguing, enduring words. A piece of your life, present tense only.
Some background on mail art.
Ray Johnson, (1927-1995) was a creative explosion in photography, collage, performance, and mail art following the early 20th c. vein of iconoclastic and absurdist work by the Dadaists. Johnson’s finesse with imagery and thought, juxtaposition and experience, and his trademark bunny image, should be familiar to all serious artists. If you haven’t explored his work, do it now! It is seriously “not nothing” and has pointed the way to visual expression we continue to experience and use. His sense of form is classic, intelligent, rebellious, humorous, tragic, a torrent of invention that affects our time.
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