Week 9
Single Tree Arts, 9th week of The Postal/Mail Art Exhibition, “Back to Basics”, received a piece by Brian Tripp sent by artist Kay Sennott. The artwork is a poem song print. I met Kay at a textile printing workshop in Los Angeles a few years back. There was a conversation about the exhibition that Single Tree Arts was planning an exhibition with Brian Tripp and James Luna. The exhibition was canceled due to the untimely death of James Luna in 2018. she kindly sent a print that she purchased at the Alliance for California Traditional Arts ceremony that Brian was honored at. She had it matted and sent to be included in the exhibition along with an article from the the New Yorker (May 2020) highlighting the mail art exhibition”Pushing the Envelope” currently at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. It’s an honor to recurve this thoughtful gift. Thank you so much Kay-Eszter
Single Tree Arts, 9th week of The Postal/Mail Art Exhibition, “Back to Basics”, received a piece by artist M. Collins. The artwork, “Red Dots 24” 2020, Artesia Tomato Red A194 brush pen and pre-printed postcard. It reminds the viewer of works by Yayoi Kusama. There are approximately 528 dots on the face of the card.
Single Tree Arts, 9th week of The Postal/Mail Art Exhibition, “Back to Basics”, received a piece by artist Victoria Vogl Saenz. The artwork, “Untitled“, 2020 is a dry point printed on cotton rag paper in the artists home studio. It reminds the viewer of works by Goya and Kathe Kollowitz , who created deeply moving images during times of crisis. The image of a human with a bird head is found in mythologies from all parts of the world. It typically represents rebirth, which is a great commentary for these times.
Single Tree Arts, 9th week of The Postal/Mail Art Exhibition, “Back to Basics”, received an art piece and a poem by artist and poet Alicia Vogl Saenz. The artwork, “Collage “ 2020 marks the 100,000th death and alludes to the anger the artist feels towards the federal government’s, inept response to the covid-19 pandemic. The collage is on white cardstock. Donald Trump’s signature is from a bilingual letter sent with the $1200 stimulus money. The other collage material is from the post office. Issues of voting rights and the defunding of the United States Postal Service are also addressed.
The poem “A Digression on the Miraculous Opossum”, 2020, was wrapped around the collage, it speaks to the dangers of conformity and the celebration of being unique and persevering.
