Today, 29 december 2015, I read a line in a book
by Jean-Christophe Buisson called
"Il s'appelait Vlasov".
My French is not so good, so I read the dutch
translation. This line got me thinking about this
little mailproject: "In de rechterhoek stond een
bakstenen kachel voor een bed waar stapels
kranten omheen lagen". Is it strange it got me
thinking? In the middle of nowhere there's a
little house, it's wintertime.
The person living there still receives his
newspapers to read...., or so it seems.
Well, I don't live in the middle of nowhere,
although some might think so :) and I do not
have a newspaper (by choice, I might add).
So there is a slight contradiction between the
character and me and him receiving
newspapers and I don't.
He seems to collect them and I like
collecting mailart. So here's a similarity.
As a follow up to my ongoing
"projectmailartbooks", "selfportrait drawing
community", recently started "used coffeefilter
mailart project(size 4)" and many more projects,
I would like to receive the frontpage of as many
countries' newspapers of 1 january 2016 as
possible.
Just the frontpage.
All different frontpages determined by
social cultural aspects.
Fascinating to see all the differences.
including your envelope.
No returns.
Could you be so kind as to help me?
I already sent an email to (mail)artists living in
the following countries:
Norway, Finland, USA, Canada, Brasil,
Argentina, Puerto Rico, UK, Turkey,
China, Japan, Korea, Australia, Belgium,
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, France,
Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia,
Portugal, Russia, Macedonia and Iran.
Still a lot of countries are missing.
Do you know anyone living in one of the
missing countries, please forward this link
to them. I thank you in advance.
You can send the frontpage of your
newspaper dated 1 january 2016 to:
Ed Hanssen
FrontPage
Hoogstraat 29
6083 AX NUNHEM
the Netherlands
Thank you for reading and I am eagerly awaiting your frontpages.
Terry Reid:
Paul Tiilila:
Terry Reid - Helen Amyes - Ken Friedman: