The Book is a Friend

Sometimes when you make and send mail art you have to accept that it just might not get there.  All that was left of this copy of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, was the cover.  That has been converted into a postcard with obsessively hand-painted bookshelves on the back – it was kind of addictive painting those.   Now, let’s hope it makes it to Russia.

Hiding Postcards in Books

In 2013 I started sending out mail art that was intended for the recipients to hide the art in a book.   A new set of ten pieces going out today.  Paintings of bookcases on unused franked postcards form the 1980s.  I needed to augment the original postage with additional stamps.  In this case some even older unused stamps.  If you receive a piece and hide it, years from now it will be a bit confusing to the finder as it will have postage from different decades.