Mail Art

I mailed friends two subtle shades of color swatches attached to cards and asked for their input. Here's what I got back:

2006 Holiday Card Project

Last holiday season i decided to try to create an online holiday card people can watch and listen to.

I asked people via email to leave voice mail messages on my home phone. Since the messages come to my email as a wav attachment, I was easily able to use them in my music composition program.

I asked people to think about what they really wanted for the new year and to call in and leave their answer on my voicemail.

I then sliced up their words and made a message out of it all--maybe a meta-message.

This is the result.

Lawrence Weiner

Bill Viola, The Crossing

Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

Diagram of a creative process

dodeedo site (in progress)

"My Biggest Heart"

Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen
"In spring, as the ice pack recedes, narwhals push into cracks and holes as they migrate. Their compact size (13 to 16 feet [four to five meters] long) and lack of dorsal fins aid travel beneath the ice. The annual migration also brings them within range of human hunters."
© 2007 Paul Nicklen & National Geographic Magazine

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo
"What the Water Gave Me"
1938

Trees on Mars

Giovanni Da Milano

Giovanni Da Milano
"Christ in Pieta" (detail)
1365

Masaccio

Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel
"Adam and Eve" (detail)
1426

"And they realized they all had mothers"

The Pixelator

How To Make Your Own Pixelator

Post-Mortem

Worse and worse, Cricket. . . .

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

Fig Tree Winter
c.1924-1925

Post-serial

Post-haste

Youre just another part of me . .

Dont point your finger
Not dangerous
This is our planet
Youre one of us

Were sendin out
A major love
And this is our
Message to you
(message to you)
The planets are linin up
Were bringin brighter days
Theyre all in line
Waitin for you
Cant you see . . .?
Youre just another part of me
Another part of me . .

Were takin over
This is the truth, baby
Another part of me

Post-Its

My office's internet security is so annoyingly tight that I can only get access to the internet and my email accounts through my iphone. Which is probably why, in the course of one particularly long and boring day at the office, I found myself experimenting with the iphone's incredibly convenient ability to take photographs and instantly send them to people.

I might have just been making a virtue out of a necessity, but I found it really satisfying to scribble out a letter on a set of tiny post-its and assemble them on my desk.