The Art of Gurdonark

[gurdonark]

I must admit to a fault here. I love it when mail art documentation for mail art calls to which I submit is posted on-line. I see that heymaggie has set up a web page for the responses to her "butterflies" mail art call. I love butterflies, so I was delighted to whip something up and post. As it involves a great deal of intricate technique (that is, I scotch taped some construction paper to a corruplast card), I thought I'd better guide discerning art fans to the page. Now let's see if I can get the HTML a h ref stuff all right:

Gurdonark's Amazing Sulphur Butterfly Collage, 2002.

Special thanks for heymaggie, a gallery owner who never demands sales or commissions. I believe this call is still open, and details are available in her LiveJournal, so I hope that others will postcard their impressions of butterflies off to her, because, after all, butterflies are free

Comments

[coollibrarian.livejournal.com]

link works, it sure does look purty

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It looks better on the website that it did in person.

[laruth.livejournal.com]

It looks good!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm no artist,but it was fun to cut it out and put it together!

Artifacts

[kelquestor.livejournal.com]

I really like this whole concept of mail art, which I think I first became aware of as an interest people share, in your LJ, Robert. Although not usually an artist in the sense that I cultivate my skill to visually stimulate (beyond presentation and content of the written word) with my creations (more because of my personal belief in my inability to do so than lack of desire), I am tempted to join in somewhere along the line.

What do you write on these postcards? I have always loved receiving postcards, and enjoyed choosing (not yet personally creating them to that extent) and composing them. I think there is some essence of the moment captured in a postcard, both by the choice of illustration, and by the words one feels compelled to fit in that small space. And it's good practice for the art of being succinct, one of the arts I do actively pursue, although I am sure this is not evident in my comments or journal postings! : P