Stay Home, Make Art, Wave the Flag – Day 29

Today some pages of flag waving.  Having sorted through thousands of postage stamps, I can say the frequency of putting the flag on stamps is something uniquely American.  Sure, other countries have their flag on some stamps, but no country uses theirs so often as the United States. Personally, I’ve always been the sort of customer who asks for commemoratives and only buys flag stamps in a pinch.

Stay Home, Make Art – Day 27

I continue to use all my old postage stamps for this new artist’s book I am working on.  The pages I did for today are some pandemic postage where everyone in every stamp is wearing a mask.  Years from now, this will be a reminder of when I did this project.  The postage stamp to really notice is the one featuring Clara Maass.  The stamp reads “She gave her life.” And she did in 1901 when she volunteered for medical experiments trying to find a cure for Yellow Fever.