When I asked of digital files made of my older envelopes I knew that I would be in for a surprise. Clemente Padin, Uruguay, sent me a scan from a TAM-Bulletin that I issued back in 1985. Actually this is the first time I see how these bulletins arrived at the receivers end. The TAM-Bulletin send without envelope with 120 cents on postage on it. It was # 064 of 300, and I will surely use this image in the documentation I plan for my 25-year celebration in mail-art.
Michael Leigh suggested that we should exchange digital files of the envelopes we have from eachother. A nice thought, but when I think of what I have here in Tilburg I musn't think of scanning it all. I did promiss him though that exchange is no problem, but to stirr things up a bit I sent him a digital image of an envelope he will only get in a few days.
I like to play with these communication-forms. Mail-Art for me is more Communication-Art as I wrote once. The fact that a digital image is so quick doesn't make the digital form better. The acrylic painted envelop Michael will get has a specific structure and feel. Than I can only sent by the trdition mail.......
Ruud
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I only want one scan for one scan of yours ~ruud, not the whole archive! I realise that would take forever!
you will have a scan soon. Just a bit of waiting, and you'll get it for sure.
Because I am a typical archiver I am always thinking of the complete collections. Just something that is ntypical me.
So expect one scan soon......
Ruud
O.K. you should have the jpeg i sent about an hour ago of the envelope I found in a box upstairs in my workroom. No idea of the date but i would guess it was the mid 90's. It was just a bit too big for my scanner so an inch at one end missing.
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