Mail art no. 89

Mail art

Yellow postcard includes a black illustration, multiple ink stamps, and the affixed U.S. postage stamps have an image of a deer.

A two-sided postcard featuring a collage-style front and a handwritten back. The front side, printed in black ink on yellow cardstock, combines text, comic fragments, and abstract illustrations of faces with stitched mouths. Prominent text reads “Ray’s Johnson Creeps!!,” “FaGaGaGa,” and “METANET CONGRESS 1992.” The background includes cutout text and a comic panel with the words “What a wizard car!” The reverse side has handwritten text reading, “why does our dog have to wear a winter coat, fur too, all summer? m,” addressed to John M. Bennett at 137 Leland, Columbus, OH 43214. It includes printed elements with logos for “FaGaGaGa,” “Fluxus West,” and “N.E.O.N.I.C.S.,” a Youngstown, Ohio postmark dated July 1, 1991, and a 19¢ USA postage stamp showing a fawn.

FaGaGaGa

Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries

State University of New York at Buffalo

Poetry Collection, Special Collections, University Libraries

1991

Basinski, Michael

Recipient: Bennett, John M.

Bennett, John M.

Postcards

Image

Still image

Text

Mail Art John M. Bennett Box #1

MA0089

LIB-PC001

2/24/2006

5/26/2006

10 x 12 cm.

Paper (Fiber product)