Three letters in my P.O. Box today. All from mail-artists I interviewed in the 90-ies. The first letter was from Michael Lumb. He sent me a CD with scans of 134 envelopes he has in his archives. Also envelopes I sent to Robin Crozier, Patricia Collins and Michael Leigh. Seems these envelopes ended there. Michael writes: “I hope there are some nice memories and surprises for you”. Well, the biggest surprise was to see the older envelopes. I always used to integrate several techniques on the envelopes, paint, rubberstamps and stickers. Typical mail-art as well. Nowadays I spend a lot more time on single envelopes. Also a reason why only few see those envelopes. I am confirmed in my view it is better to send out less with better quality rather than send out mass-mailings with just a few stamps. Some envelopes are surpises though. I will include one on this blog.
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Michael visited us a couple of times when we lived in London and always took away a big bag of mail art from my archive as we were pushed for space in that tiny flat and Michael generously offered a good home for it in Ipswich. Thats why he has some of your mail sent to us. See it all goes round in a big circle!
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