Greetings Citizens!!!
Today, I’ve finally gotten around to scanning my most recent inductee to The Museum of Postcard Art, so I can finally get around to my first update since the ORIGIN post! (It’s some fascinating reading, if you haven’t seen that article yet!) For this update, I’d like to report that I have THREE new inductee cards, one honorable mention, and that our (I like to think of this as a group project) first physical book of Postcard Art is now MORE THAN half full!!! (I bought four books to start the collection, but they aren’t very expensive, so I can easily buy more once the first set are full…)
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING A CARD TO THE COLLECTION (we’ll call it “nomination by post”) feel free to contact me and I’ll give you the address to mail the nominee card. If you are not interested in contributing to The Museum of Postcard Art, then just send money… Those are your two choices! (I don’t make the rules here…) (AND, I accept Hive, HBD, CCC, Eth, Bitcoin, Dai, or Stellar Lumins… or fiat, as long as it’s clean.) (Ha!)
Here is the first new inductee into The Museum of Postcard Art!
“Own It” by Mary Counts
[Watercolor, I think, and ink on found cardboard.]
After sending a silly postcard to Mark and Mary Counts’s house, I received THIS wonderful, colorful, hand-made, one-of-a-kind postcard from Mary! It’s awesome! And it made me refocus my postcard sending regimen and create some hand created postcards of my own. (I’ll show those below!) THANK YOU, MARY!!!!
[For this postcard, we get the normal point for it fitting into the Museum book, plus a bonus point for it being one-of-a-kind, and double bonus points for it having actually come through the postal system, so FOUR POINTS for this one!!!]
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“(Untitled – Do You Know This Man?)” by Richard F. Yates
[Handcut collage and ink on found cardboard.]
This might seem controversial, but I’m inducting one of my own cards into the Museum. I had intended on SENDING this collage card to someone, but my wife, Mariah, said we should keep it, and we do what we’re told in this relationship! (Ha!) Because it fits in the 4 x 6 sleeve in the book, and I KNOW (having made it myself) that it was intended to be a postcard, it fits the criteria for admission. And there is a precedent for this type of behavior…
When I was at Grad School at Portland State University studying poetry (an incredibly worthwhile activity that was in no way economic suicide), I discovered that a great many of the editors and anthologists who created POETRY COLLECTIONS---a thing that was once popular---those editors would often include a few of their own poems in the collections, and although some might find this behavior SHADY, I see it as the prerogative of the individual making the collection to include whichever works they feel fit the criteria of their anthology. As the collection that I am building, The Museum of Postcard Art, is a collection of art in postcard form, my work (in this case) fits the bill! (The two most recent postcards that I’ve made and sent out did NOT fit the criteria, as I made them larger than the arbitrary 4 x 6 size restriction that I placed on cards being included in the MOPA. To me, that seemed funny…)
Anyway, it’s my collection, and I wanted to put that particular card in it, so I did…
[This card gets 2 points: one for being in the collection and a bonus point for it being one-of-a-kind.]
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“Ode to Richard Powers” by Mark Counts
[Water color, I think, and ink on found cardboard.]
A few days after the card from Mary Counts arrived, I received THIS wonderful, cool, creepy gem of a handmade card from her husband, Mark! It’s good to have cool friends who are willing to send you interesting stuff! THANK YOU, MARK! I love it!!!
[Another FOUR POINT card!!! One for being in the collection, one for being handmade, and TWO for having gone through the mail!!!]
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Honorable Mention
I received this lovely card a few days ago as well, from a friend in Brush Prairie, Washington.
UNFORTUNATELY, the card is just a hair too big to fit in the Museum protective sleeves!!! Mariah, who reminded me that I created this game and could cheat if I wanted, suggested that I trim the card a bit so that it fits---but that wouldn’t be keeping with the SPIRIT of the MOPA game, now would it??? Sadly, this fantastic card will just have to be stuck to the wall of my studio instead of being in the official collection…
[ZERO points for this one, based on a technicality, but I still LOVE the card!!! THANK YOU, STEFFEN!!! I will find a frame for the card and add it to my framed postcard wall!]
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Last, here are two handmade postcards that I have recently sent out as thankyou’s for the cards I have received! (I know I’ve posted these image before, usually on the days that I finished them, but not everyone sees every post, and since I’m doing postcard stuff here, sharing these two pieces again seems appropriate)
[Both cards are hand cut paper collage and ink on found cardboard with packing tape faux-lamination. I put packing tape over the image after the collage is complete to help protect the artwork as it travels through the postal system. (Some in the mail art world might consider this cheating. Sorry. Packing tape is part of my aesthetic!)]
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Total Museum Points So Far:
Cards in collection (one point each): 13
Bonus point for unique, one-of-a-kind creation (one point each): 2
Double bonus point for the postcard having traveled through the postal system (two points each): 4
19 points so far!!!! (Not bad. What’s YOUR high score? Remember, if you want official “satellite branch” status, let me know, and I’ll send you an OFFICIAL MOPA SATELLITE certificate! Now get collecting!!!!
Later!
---Richard F. Yates
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