Mail art examples
by aisling d'art ©2000 - 2006Mail art is so wild and varied, it's difficult to say, "This is what mail art looks like." My 2005 mail art call, Art in the Streets, gives a good overview of typical mail art... if there is anything "typical" about it.
I began sending decorated envelopes in the 1970s. I used some rubber stamps, some stickers, and lots of glitter and paint. But, by the mid-80s, I'd stopped.
Then, in 2000, I discovered that other people decorated envelopes (and other objects) and sent them through the mail, and called it "mail art." I was eager to play!
These were two of my earliest mailart pieces, from around February 2000. The first is a postcard from the Rhode Island CCA show:
The second piece is a mailart envelope featuring a farming theme:
Stamp credits:
Airmail:
Dragonfly, Stampourri;
wings (on collage clock faces), St.
Louis Stamp Design;
airmail airplane, Bizzaro;
airmail miniature, Coffee Break Design;
datestamp, Stockwell (office supply).
Rice farming:
Butterfly artistamp from
Arky of Toast; visa stamp
by
Stampers Anonymous; dragonfly,
Stampourri; airmail airplane, Bizzaro; good luck symbol is from a stencil.