Mail art no. 59

Mail art

Mail art piece, created by Sticker Dude, consisting of a sheet of black and white artist stamps, with printed text and a large black-and-white photographic image of Ray Johnson at the top and multiple stamp-like designs arranged in rows beneath it. The top photograph shows a person, Ray Johnson, standing with his back turned, wearing a jacket with a studded pattern, facing a wall and a striped pole. To the right of the photograph is printed text: “[Mail Art] has no history, only a present, which was a part, of course, on present as now, and present as gift. A pun on my own way of giving information and objects or whatever, in letter form. —Ray Johnson.” Below the photograph is a grid of repeated monochrome stamp designs labeled “U.S. POSTAL ART” with a small portrait of the same person and the text “RAY JOHNSON” printed at the bottom of each stamp. Additional small text in the lower right reads “Design & production by Derryn Greenberg Press, NYC 2006 © Ray Johnson,” along with “Gummed Paper.” Mail art recipient: Mike Basinski.

Sticker Dude

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

2003

Basinski, Michael

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Postage stamps

Text

Image

Still Image

Mail Art Sticker Dude Box #1

MA0059

LIB-PC001

2006-02-13

2006-05-26

28 x 22 cm.

Postage stamps