Mail art no. 157

mail art

Mail art piece, created by Ragged Edge Press, consisting of a decorated, off-white worn envelope arranged as a collage filled with stamped illustrations (animals, moons, tools, ships, figures), bright ink accents, and scattered scissors icons containing five sheets of stamps and stickers and a few pieces of ephemera. At the center is a vertical black-and-white ad for “Dash Exterminating Co. Inc.” To the upper right is a red “Save $1.00 NOW!” coupon. On the right are a small purple illustration and a black profile silhouette in a white square. The lower left features a circular, full-color Wizard of Oz image labeled “The Wonders of Oz Await You.” Small scissor icons are scattered across the surface. The second sheet of stamps and stickers are colored in a rainbow gradient from top to bottom with Illustrations of Jerry Garcia taking up most of the stamps and lyrics by Robert Hunter on the rest of the page. The third sheet is stamped with a grid of black-and-white illustrated portraits, each labeled with a name. Headline reads: “buz blurr from Arkansas to Dallas, Seattle, Zurich, Paris, Columbus and New York City — Mountains of Mugshots from the Mail Art Network.” Footer notes: “International Curatorial Space, NYC, August 5th–29th, 2003,” and “Commemorative Sheet for buz by The Sticker Dude.” The fourth sheet is composed of a series of stamps, all with a logo reading "Global Mail Art Community Eternal Network" taking up most of the space on each stamp. The rest of the space on each stamp contains a quote or other text. The fifth sheet consists of a grid of twelve colorful collage images arranged in four rows on a white background. Repeated images include a woman in a red outfit and wide black hat beside a toy robot; a couple kissing with butterflies on their faces; classical figures combined with geometric shapes; a man presenting a floating sphere; a face overlaid with butterflies; a woman standing by a window with a small spacecraft outside; and two photographs of people viewing artworks in gallery spaces. The final element of the mail art piece is Three graphic panels: left, a vintage illustration of a sweating man pedaling a machine under the title “Herd Worship”; center, a stamp-style purple-and-blue image reading “I AM ART HISTORY!” with a jubilant figure; right, a narrow floral pattern above a small label titled “Mail Art Cocktail: 1/3 Fantasy, 1/3 Irony, 1/3 Madness.” Mail art recipient: Sticker Dude.

Ragged Edge Press

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

Basinski, Michael

Sticker Dude

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MA0157

Mail Art Sticker Dude Box #

2006-11-08

2006-11-13

Mail art. LIB-PC-001

23 x 31 cm.

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