GLOSSARY

MAILART GLOSSARY

ERASER CARVING: It’s a cheap source of images to stamp. Use any plastic eraser and an X-acto knife. Dig out anything you don’t want to appear on the paper when inked and stamped.

MAILART: Virtually anything (but bills, etc.) sent via the postal agencies of the world. If you can mail it - it’s mailart. It’s best, however, to avoid mailing explosives and body parts. Most mailart is in the form of decorated envelopes and handmade postcards, very often rubber stamps are the principle art tools. You really get the attention you secretly desire by sending STUFF. A cool way to do this is to get the self-adhesive postage stamps that are now readily available and stick them and the address directly on the item that is being mailed. I have received a plastic lawn flamingo (sans legs), a huge plastic flamingo egg, a child’s beach bucket and shovel, a large blue plastic fish from Alaska, a flamingo snout complete with elastic for immediate wear, and lots more. (Picture these inconspicuous items hanging from my mailbox when I get home.) Amuse your mail carrier. If you are really shy about taking this stuff to the PO for mailing, weigh the item, attach postage and drop in any mailbox in dead of night (while wearing a flamingo snout.) The only “rule” is: Reciprocation. To get mailart - you have to send mailart. (Potential correspondents are always listed in the classifieds in RubberStampMadness Magazine & Global Mail).

POSTOIDS, CINDERELLAS, ARTISTAMPS : Designed to look like postage but not intended to actually carry mail. Usually handmade with rubber stamps, clipart, freehand design, and/or computers on dry gum paper. If you’ve bought postage stamps lately you know it’s getting more and more difficult to differentiate between legit and homemade postage.

‘ZINE: Loosely defined here. You write it, you send it. Lax strictures. Be Rupert Murdoch - a legend in your own mind.

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