{"id":4813,"date":"2015-01-21T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2015-01-24T00:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T04:27:35","slug":"more-than-a-dalliance-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4813","title":{"rendered":"More than a dalliance this time . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe best part about mail art is that you don\u2019t have to be there in person to be in on the action.\u201d
\n\u2014 Anna Banana<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, I must admit I do not know all that much about the practice of \u201cpostal art.\u201d Although I have mailed thousands of gift art<\/a> items over the decades (usually disguised as greeting cards<\/a>), I have never considered myself a \u201cmail art\u201d enthusiast, having had only indirect contact with the popular activity. I am aware that Ray Johnson was a seminal force in the phenomena, and that many think he envisioned the virtual community long before today\u2019s online social networks took hold. Blogsites such as Jennie Hinchcliff\u2019s exuberant every day should be a red letter day<\/em><\/a> have enabled me to experience an enthusiasm for the genre in a vicarious way. For those who create collage, the art form has overlapped with collaboration<\/a> to some degree, with the essential exchange of creations taking place. Like many artists, I have some major problems with the \u201cart world\u201d as an entrenched, elitist institution, but, because I have no philosophical bias against the idea of an \u201cart marketplace,\u201d the correspondence art movement never has had much of a grip on my sentiments or available time. Nevertheless, I strongly identify with the inclusiveness and magnanimity at the heart of the practice.<\/p>\n

I am not entirely sure why I responded to a recent mail art proposition from Nancy Gene Armstrong<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, but I had taken note of her work for the first time last year and the appeal of having an example of it arrive for me in the mail was undeniable. It came as a vertical design, nearly 26 inches tall, that unfolded in a paced, rolling presentation. Below are two exquisite details from her generous offering.
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two mail art details<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage by N G Armstrong
\ncollection of J A Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe best part about mail art is that you don\u2019t have to be there in person to be in on the action.\u201d \u2014 Anna Banana First of all, I must admit I do not know all that much about the practice of \u201cpostal art.\u201d Although I have mailed thousands of gift art items over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,152,54,94,140,31],"tags":[153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4847,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}