Mail Art

I remember as a kid, I always wanted a pen pal. I had no idea how to get one and neither did my parents. The thought of exchanging thoughts or experiences with someone on the other side of the city, state, country, or world seemed so exciting. And there's just something so fun about making or writing something specifically for someone, sending it out there into the big wild world and waiting for a response. And when you get that return package, its like a mini-Xmas. It really brightens the day, knowing someone out there is reaching out to you too. It was in this spirit that I created a drawing specifically for my mail partner. I thought it important to try to draw something plucked straight from my imagination. I wanted it to be an odd thing to find in the mail box. So I drew a picture of cyclop clouds crying/raining blood on a swallowtail bird. I used bright, candy colors to keep it happy. I kinda wish I had taken a picture of it now, but at the time it was important to me that it exist as a one-of-a-kind creation. I guess I felt somehow intuitively that the temporal nature of a piece of mail traversing space and time seemed to call for it. But now I don't know, I was kinda fond of it...