Mail art no. 82

Mail art

Two-sided white envelope. Front decorated with rubber ink stamps, affixed with Netherlands postage stamp. Back is decorated with black rubber ink stamp. Item submitted as part of the Youth and Mail Art Project.

The four images together depict an artist’s mail art envelope and its contents:

Front of the envelope: A white envelope featuring a purple bird stamp and the word “DRUKWERK” printed in the upper left corner. It is addressed in handwritten script to “Luce Fierens, Youth & mail-art, Botenstraat 43, B-2801 Hombeek, België.” A Dutch postage stamp depicting Nobel Prize winner Pieter Zeeman is affixed in the top right corner, alongside an Olympic-themed postmark.

First enclosed card: A white card bordered in brown ink, showing a simple line drawing of a large pig followed by three smaller pigs. The handwritten caption along the bottom reads, “Youth. Tell them about history.” An Austrian stamp featuring a wild boar and a circular postmark are visible in the upper right corner.

Second enclosed card: Another bordered white card, decorated with repeated drawings of pigs, each marked with a red “X.” Across the top, handwritten text reads, “New kids of the Vleams Blok? Stop them.”

Back of the envelope: The reverse of the same envelope, stamped in purple with an oval logo reading “EVER ARTS DR.W.28 NOORDGOUWE 4317 AB,” featuring an image of a wild boar. Two sets of small hoof-print stamps appear below.

Together, the images document a piece of politically charged mail art incorporating hand-stamped illustrations, personal handwriting, and symbolic imagery.

Ever Arts

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

Envelopes

Image

Still image

Text

Mail Art Luce Fierens Box #1

MA0082

LIB-PC001

Drukwerk

2/17/2006

5/25/2006

12 x 16 cm.

Envelopes