Spring Mail Call

Every time I head over to Golden Gate Park to enjoy springtime splendor, I stop by my post office box in the Upper Haight and see what mail art has shown up.  Here is a sampling of somethings that have arrived in the past month: 

1. Wabi Sabi Sews – California 
2. Margo Hill – California 
3. Esther Kwan – California
4. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California
5. Jean-Phillippe Gilliot – Belgium 
6. The Sticker Dude – New York 
7. Valdor – Catalonia/Spain
8. Ed Giecek – Washington
9. Kathy Barnett – Missouri
10. Fleur Helsingor – California

Say Gay!

Did we ever imagine living in a world where Florida’s governor would have a Russian dictator as a role model?  Yet here we are in 2022 with dictator wannabe Ron DeSantis declaring “Don’t Say Gay.”  How about Don’t Say DeSantis instead? It was time for me to repurpose a bunch of vintage Florida postcards and do a new series of mail art reminding all of us to just say gay!

Recycling Envelopes

After 10+ years of exchanging mail art with other artists, my archive boxes are bursting at the seams.   Sometimes the envelopes are an integral part of the piece.  Many envelopes are works of art themselves.  But other times they are just envelopes.  To lighten the load in my archive boxes, I removed the boring envelopes and recycled them by turning them into mail art.    This series was mailed out yesterday,  

Mail Art from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Last week mail art was received from Lubomyr Tymkiv in Lviv, Ukraine.  It was mailed just before the invasion and it took months to get here.  I got email from Lubomyr last week and I hope he and everyone in Ukraine can see this war end soon.