The idea for the Mail Art project started at the suggestion of Mark Venema, who goes by @Art_News on Twitter. Mark recruited 32 other artists, designers, hobbyists, and afficiandos from the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia to join him in his project. I began my series of post cards at the beginning of June, cutting up a collection of old Boys' Life magazines and forming my own narratives from the aliens, pirates, and scientists I found in the comic pages. I finished the 32 cards in about three weeks, enthusiastically adopting the routine of making about one or two cards each day. At the end of the project, I mailed them out to all other participating artists, not knowing whether they would reach their final destination or not. I've uploaded only a portion of my cards here. The entire project can be viewed on the Flickr group.



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