Sky Pape Fine Art Drawing

03-05-04
postcard
digital collage

Being thoroughly down and discouraged lately, I set out to make something completely positive. This fake postcard nods to the late great artist Ray Johnson, who made it known that correspondence IS art (www.artpool.hu/Ray/RJ_title.html). The elephant was drawn by Ray himself, lifted from a letter of his I have, as is the Locust Valley 1970 postmark.

Nothing beats real mail in the box. I once got a postcard written on birch bark. Some old letters I dug out of my memorabilia provided all the choice snippets for this card. Reading them again made me entertain the thought that maybe things didn’t suck quite so bad. If you ever want to make a difference, try sending an encouraging, joyful piece of mail to someone. Anyone. (Why not me? 91 Payson Ave, #1C, NYC 10034). It works.

untitled (galactic)

Cosmic, dude. This is more typical of the stuff that comes out of my studio. Take traditional drawing materials such as handmade paper and ink. Mess around until something unexpected happens.

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