Having seen Ray Johnson create art and spread it through the postal system, it was kind of neat for us to do something similar.
Taking time in class to just let loose and collage together whatever we felt was enjoyable and, to an extent, necessary. It was quite nice not to worry so much about this creation we are making. The idea of putting things together and then sending them off on their way is quite interesting, actually. What if we chose a random name from a phone book? What if we chose a random name for our return address? How might our piece that we mail out affect the person that gets it? All of these questions and more were being tossed about in my mind during this exercise.
I think this was also a great chance to just play - which can be very helpful at times. It allows one to just see what happens when one medium/element/technique meets another, and hopefully find something useful (or entertaining, at least). As far as I am concerned, more of this playful exercise needs to happen in my art, in my life.
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