Recently I was interviewed by Kurt Andersen at Studio 360 for their show on letters . I had heard they were looking for mail art and got myself inspired to create and send a little piece of joy. My work and our talk isn't in the show but the show is lovely and the ideas are prescient.

Why does it matter what we send through the mail? Why do some artists go to such extreme efforts to send fantastic art through the mail? Why is the process of sending something so scary?

Maybe:

your words, your art, your ideas go out in the world and they are either received or rejected.

because everyone on some level wants a valentine, a friend, a secret admirer.

because we need to connect to others.

because mail is a break in the mundane. When it is not a bill or a solicitation, it is (or can be) a treat.

These projects ( pinhole cameras through the mail , and graceful envelopes --like this one , and Jeremy Adolphson's 4 x 6 collection ) have me inspired to keep sending. Even if my days of making and mailing a 40 page zine four times a year to 100plus people are over, I am still trustworthy .
Ok, that's it. I'm off to read and draw.
take care,
Rachael