After signing on for #mailart365, I realized that I didn't want just to make postcard sized versions of my regular drawings. That was how I approached the last #mailart project, and the results were... fine. Nice drawings, and they did help me to work out some ideas I'd been playing with. But I thought some of the most successful pieces in that project were the ones in which Mail was part of their content, not just a way to send them to each other.

In the meantime, while digging through my archives, I came across a stamp collection compiled by one of the founders of the Negritude Movement. (My late husband, who was an archivist, must have processed his papers.) Really, it is just stamps and envelopes from his correspondence. I'm reluctant to reuse the envelope fronts, which have names, return addresses and cancellations - historical data! What would the Damas people say? But the backs of the envelopes seem like fair game. So I removed them and thought they would be the perfect place to start this project.




Some of the pieces need more work than others, so I have a bit more to do (tonight!) before they go in the mail.

Now, don't expect a long shpiel every time I get a new idea! Just remember that I will be thinking about how Mail can be more than just the format of the work.