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Junk Mail Letters is ending early, for personal reasons.

Have a lovely night.

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Junk Mail Letters

Mail art started in the late 1950’s pioneered by Dadaists and Italian Futurists, consists of collaged post cards and letters, rubber stamps and bedazzled envelopes.  The main, central trait is that mail art used the postal service - was mailed to other people/artists.  One core person to contemporary mail art is Ray Johnson, who in the 50’s sent “moticos”, collages which sometimes had instructions.  These letters were supposed to be responded to, creating a correspondence chain.

However, its 2023, and post is no longer the primary form of long-form communication: digital messaging is.  With the 21st century, as email and texting becoming more accessible, and with the occurrence of the Global Financial Crisis spanning 2007-2009, the total domestic letters the Australian post has decreased by 65% by 2020/21, and it hasn’t up-ticked in the past two years, especially with the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the economic instability caused by quarantining and non-essential retail closer, the postal service also reduced mail being sent to one another.

I grew up within the declining of postal mail, with the only mail in my childhood (from memory) was Christmas cards and my parents bills, but not really correspondence between family and friends.  Why would you, when you can just call them, or text them?  For a while, I didn’t think about this.  It was just how life is.  But recently, I have been religiously checking my mail, because I’m anticipating a document that is supposed to be mailed to be.  And because I was checking the mail religiously, I noticed the mundanity of mail.  Bills, junk mail, and housing marketing flyers.  It dawned on me; mail, the thing one thinks of when it comes to communication between people on an intimate level, doesn’t happen anymore.  And so, this birthed Junk Mail Letters.

Junk Mail Letters is a mail art project, in which each week, for 5-10 weeks, envelopes made from the pages of junk mail are dropped into the mail boxes of my neighbourhood, each holding a letter with a positive message.  This is to discuss the loss of connection and community which can be gained through the physical letter. The envelopes plays a slightly different role: the role of subversion. Junk mail is not something people expect to enjoy and like, so to use it to hold a positive message subverts expectations.

Mail, in some ways, is more intimate and connected to people than digital messaging is. Letters are written (or printed, if you own a printer) with the goal of talking about your life and checking in on other people, hand-crafted and hand-folded.  Whether its mail about yourself, or a surprise gift to someone else, the touch of a hand made them, and you can touch the letter yourself, hold it for as long as possible.  Mail holds connection through touch, from its physicality.  You can’t touch an individual text, its just the screen of the phone, with that spot touched also touching a word document, YouTube, this Tumblr post.  Mail is impactful though its physicality.

Information on Mail Art’s History (brief)

The state of Australian Postal Service

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Much cardboard, what can be made??

Several fridges. That's what can be made

Baby fridge

Fridge two. A very abstract fridge called Kimberley-Clark Bench-Roll Fridge. This one was a group effort, and was quite fun :D

Song recommendation: anything by Glass Animals or Everything Moves by Bronze Radio Return

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A collection of some older artworks I've done, because I think they're cool.

Traditional drawing

Digital artwork

Soft sculpture :)

Song recommendation: Black Betty by Spiderbait

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Doodle dump!!

This is just a random set I did during this week because why not?

Today I felt shitty so to make me feel better I drew Ken! It did help me feel better.

(his hand is weird I know!)

Song recommendation: A Million Gruesome Ways to Die, features in Bille Bust Up

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Okay so I saw the Barbie movie and I have thoughts. First thing, it's so fun and it has the capability to break your heart depending where you are in life (at points it broke mine) and it might be my new favourite movie.

Second thing, I felt so bad for the Kens, because they're all kinda struggling, and even though one Ken is a jackass, they made me emote with them, and a good chunk of that is because I get where they're coming from (don't worry Main Ken, I've also been friendzoned you're not alone) and I also feel bad for Allen because man's be all by themself and I honestly wish I was Allen (and Allen in my head is also non-binary but that's a head cannon).

But gosh dang it rn I think I'm Barbie, because her entire arc is an arc that I'm possibly going though (apart from leading on Ken Barb's why'd you do home boy like that) but I don't want to go into it because otherwise I'll be writing a lit English essay and I don't think we need that rn.

Basic review? Go watch the movie!! Even if you come out feeling like it's cringe, there'll probably be something you find enjoyable.

Plus the credits have cute styling!!

(we also got food after and I feel the need to share the drink I got at saints kitchen

The brownie was also very good :) )

Song recommendation: I'm Just Ken by Ryan Gosling or Sway with Me by Saweetie and GALXARA

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Food was had with family, it was pretty good for a small diner, called Munchies.

It's a burger place, and it's pretty good (extra fresh tomatoes, very good.) They even have burgers with ICECREAM in them, which raised some concerns with ma, considering the rest of the ingredients were the same as savoury burgers XD. I was a fan of the brick feature wall, photographed below.

It vibes hard (the sink adds to the vibe XD)

They also had a piece of advertising that both me and my brother found funny. The wording is great, 10/10 for the sibling teasing opportunities.

Again, was pretty worth.

(I should also make some FNAF: SB Ruin art shouldn't I?)

Song recommendation: Creature of the Night by Air Traffic Control

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These ones I dislike either for their composition, lack of contrast or just because they are *boring*.

Song recommendation: Funkytown by Lipps inc

(woohoo reblog chain is done)

Since it was really nice outside, I took Eggnog for a walk and the cool digital camera I found twoish weeks ago so cool photos could be taken. This is *all* of them :)

My Favourites

++(god dang it it needs to be a reblog chain gah)

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Now on to the photo flops, because it's a learning experience, and because if I'm posting then let me at least attempt genuinity.

These all have a flop theme, and it's that they're all blurry. This is because the 75mm - 300mm lens doesn't like me and won't focus, but it's also the lens with the most zoom. Very rude, but I'll work it out eventually. Hopefully 😅

Since it was really nice outside, I took Eggnog for a walk and the cool digital camera I found twoish weeks ago so cool photos could be taken. This is *all* of them :)

My Favourites

++(god dang it it needs to be a reblog chain gah)

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More egg for you all :)

She is a brilliant model, is she not?

Since it was really nice outside, I took Eggnog for a walk and the cool digital camera I found twoish weeks ago so cool photos could be taken. This is *all* of them :)

My Favourites

++(god dang it it needs to be a reblog chain gah)

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The next set is going to be Eggnog (because she is the prettiest dog) but first ...

A little bit of unelegance XD

Since it was really nice outside, I took Eggnog for a walk and the cool digital camera I found twoish weeks ago so cool photos could be taken. This is *all* of them :)

My Favourites

++(god dang it it needs to be a reblog chain gah)

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Since it was really nice outside, I took Eggnog for a walk and the cool digital camera I found twoish weeks ago so cool photos could be taken. This is *all* of them :)

My Favourites

++(god dang it it needs to be a reblog chain gah)

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Ya'know those times you intend to visit a gallery that's local to you but the show you see going to see ended 5 days early and you didn't know? Yeah, that's a me moment, fabulous.

But at least I got to read some cool books :)

The first one is complete uses of a dead cat by Simon bond.

It's an illustrative book in which a presumably taxidermied (or at least I hope they're taxidermied) cat(s), such as ink pots and tennis rackets and such. Kinda morbid, but also quite vibey.

The second is The Trump Leak by the onion.

I'm not gonna lie, the preamble part of the book is quite funny and helps set up the read. It is styled like an investigation board, organised chronologically and by medium type (email, government statements etc.) Honestly reading the kids email is a little emotional because they feel ignored by their dad, it's sad.

Song recommendation: Big Bad Wolf by In This Moment

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