I'd likely tell him it sucked. "How do you like my reciepts and can labels?"
"I think they suck, why do you ask?" Just because it's art doen't mean it's interesting. --manekineko www.mailart.org --- In ma-network@yahoogroups.com, Alice Kitselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi gang, > > Last month I received a piece of mail art from someone I'd not > heard from before. He sent me a decorated envelope with a bunch of > daily junk in it. You know like receipts and pages from a calendar, > food labels...... He asked what I thought of his mail art. Yikes, I > thought. Well, to be honest I like to see a little more art in my > mail art I ventured to say. I sent him back a print of you of my > digital art pieces and decorated the envelope. His response was that > he used to do drawing and perhaps one day he would send me one. He > also said that maybe some folks are just "more serious" about their > mail art. So this has got me thinking.....what in the world did he > mean by that? Serious about mail art? I think long ago i was > "serious" about mail art. I kept a file on my computer of names and > addresses and what I'd sent to who and when. I updated my website at > least weekly. I sent out mail art every day. I issued a few mail art > calls over the years and posted the receivings on the website. I sent > out documentation. I entered mail art calls left and right. I updated > my lists.....it went on and on. It was fun. I really felt I was part > of something. But over the years my lists became pages in a note > book. I did not have the time or interest to update my site as often > as I'd like to. I forgot to list what I sent to who... I no longer > could keep up with entering mail art calls on my site and opted for a > guestbook when folks could post their calls. And then as life would > have it I faded out of mail art for a couple of years. The mail art > kept arriving but I just could not keep up. Talk about GUILT!!! > Eventually folks quit sending as much and some folks just kept on > sending. Finally, finally I slowly got back into sending stuff out. I > haven't made an artistamp in years. I really haven't sent stuff out > to any calls. I pretty much gave up on keeping lists and send > whatever I feel like out rather than worrying about it. So am I > serious about mail art? Yes, I think so. But what is serious about > mail art anyway????????? > > Dragonfly Dream > www.dragonflydream.com > > "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, > much better." > -- Laurie Anderson > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/co.u8A/gOaOAA/Zx0JAA/fuDrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
