send more mail art

I think I can comfortably take this off my list.

did my first piece in a really long time. i’m using envelope collective, hopefully i’ll be able to keep it up

Thanks to sites like swap-bot.com, I’ve been sending a lot more mail art. Right now I’m fascinated by myrioramas… myrioramii? whatever. So, this is an ongoing thing, but I’m going to retire the goal to make room for others!

for “send more postcards” for now.

I just don’t seem to have the time.

but I don’t have time. I give up.

Yeah, so I sent out two today, one collageish thing to North Carolina and another thing to Canada.

neat.

jooyoung

I sent 4 out yesterday, I want to start mailing stuff to artists in prison. (:

So I have 4 post cards I have made, I’m pretty psyched.

The first one is going to William S. Wilson, they’re all different, I have attached an example of one of them, I’ll put the rest up soon.

If people like my art, please, send me a message either through 43 things or through jooyoungchoi@swift-mail.com.

All of them are hand painted with watercolors and some have photos I took on my own, on the back. (:

I make my own silly mock stamps.

It’s a great thing.

Soon I’ll get a map and start mapping where all of my art I receive comes from and where my art is going (:

take care.

jooyoung

Now that I’ve participated in a mail art calling and exchanged mail art with the gal who taught my mail art class, I feel like I have accomplished this goal.

I am still going to send fancied-up cards and envelopes to my friends and family—just like I have been doing since I was in high school. But I have no burning desire to be further invovled in the real mail art “scene.”

In the past month, I’ve gotten two pieces of mail art because of the class I took last summer. The teacher of the class sent me a nifty, hinged collage—similar to the collages she had us make in the class, but way more elaborate.

The other thing I got was a cd of all the submissions, including mine, to a mail art exhibit. In the class I took, we all chose a calling for mail art and created a submission. Mine was a calling called “Fairy Tales.” Frankly, I didn’t think that the card I made was very good. But mail art is egalitarian—if you submit it, it gets included in the show. I was surprised, though, that the organizer of the show would take the trouble to mail me a cd. WOW!