(,) mail art rant....

2006-10-12 Thread Alice Kitselman
 I'd recently dropped off a huge load of old clothes to a thrift shop that raises money for a local animal shelter. I'd been thinking about what happens to the stuff they don't sell? Where does it go, who gets it? I'd also been thinking about all the stuff in department stores that doesn't get

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2006-10-12 Thread LaVona Sherarts
One of my husband's photography students sent her self portrait out to people though out the country with no words or return address. It was random addresses of people in the phone book. It was all about letting go for her. I am a social artist so it is a bit the same for me. I do it, send it

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2006-10-12 Thread Reed Altemus
Alice and LaVona, There are A LOT of different definition of art. Whether you think it is art or not is SUBJECTIVE and I think it should remain that way. Carlo Pittore would agree with this. As far as mail art as a letting go: I think some mail artists are not willing to be responsible for their