Mail art no. 58

Mail art

Two-sided paper piece submitted as part of the Youth and Mail Art Project. Front is decorated with stickers and rubber ink stamps and Belgian postage stamps are affixed. Back is a photocopied image of a photograph, with text in red.

The front side features a black-and-white printed image of a man standing outdoors wrapped in a quilt. Across the center, handwritten text in red over a yellow strip reads, “Maybe the youth is too young for mail-art.” Printed text near the bottom reads “Congress Solitaire,” with a small circular symbol beneath it.

The reverse side includes multiple multicolored rubber stamps—figures, butterflies, and a large circular stamp reading “MAIL ART COUNTRY * BELGIUM * THE HEART OF EUROPE *.” A Belgian postage stamp and cancellation mark appear in the lower right. The handwritten address reads: “Luce Fierens, Youth & Mail-Art, Boterstraat 43, 2811 Hombeek.” The date “15-03-1992” is stamped near the bottom.

Vanderbroucke, Jose

Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries

State University of New York at Buffalo

Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries

1992

Basinski, Michael

Recipient: Fierens, Luce

Fierens, Luce

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Envelopes

Text

Image

Still image

Mail Art Luce Fierens Box #1

MA0058

LIB-PC001

2/13/2006

5/26/2006

30 x 21 cm.

Paper (Fiber product)