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

The Big Pink Dinosaur

How can you not love a big pink dinosaur? I went down to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to have a second look. This time I took along my neighbors, 4 and 6 years old. They agreed — the dinosaur is cool. The dinosaur is made out of hundreds of recycled pink plastic bottles. The installation is the work of the team of Indian artists Thukral & Tagra. It’s my favorite part of YBCA’s current show The Matter Within: Contemporary Art of India.