Discovering the world of paper-making
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A story about the discovery of the world of paper-making when personal tragedy struck; Maaike fell ill. It is March 15th, 2020...
It's March 15th, 2020… The Netherlands went into lockdown, and the world changed dramatically. When you had any symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, the advice was to stay home; at that time, I was coughing, and I had not been fit all week. I was unusually tired and coughed my lungs out of my body. At first, I didn't think about the coronavirus at all. In my mind, I would have recovered after three weeks and gone back to work. Back at work, wi...
What is Snailmail?
The Snailmail Revolution, A New Old-Age Concept
In the age of widespread cellphone usage, not much is mentioned anymore about Snail Mail, penpals, or what it really means to receive that happy surprise in your mailbox.
Unfortunately, with the rise of social media we've seen in recent years, snail mail has essentially fallen to the back of the line in terms of popular methods of communication—almost to the point where many younger people aren't familiar with how to do ...
When you think of it, create it, mail it!
Mail Art is not a specific art direction in the traditional sense. Everything you can send by post is considered Mail Art, or it can be...
For having no history, only a present - and being art related to embellishing mail within a creative postal network, distinguished by the way it disregards and circumvents the commercial market - Mail Art is a vast promising field for new artists. From Ray Johnson’s The New York Correspondence School and Fluxus to mail interviews of Ruud Janssen, Mail Art peaked in global postal activities. The advent of the internet and digital communicati...
