For two decades, I learned about, dug in, and participated in the beautiful and bizarre realm of Mail Art artists. I found the world of Fluxus, Situationism, Neoism, Plagiarism, Art Strike, all infused in a soup of cultural criticism. There were things to make, but more importantly, people to connect with. From across the world, I met over 500 people doing the work. We were Networkers – “The Eternal Network” – before there was the web. The Aggressive School of Cultural Workers. The Correspondance School of Art. There were serious philosophical views: culture, post-postmodernism. No separation between art and consumer society. Everyone is an artist. No one is an artist. And it had a history, from Dada, through a thread of avant-garde movements across the twentieth century. And we were making history too.

And the mail art artwork media. Postcards, collage, détournement, add-and-pass-on, poetry, publications, conceptual projects, artistamps, zines, rubber stamp carving, performance, Flux kits, Networker Congresses. Choose your art name, then choose your tools. Saturdays were filled with putting together 50-60 pieces from the week, and down to the post office. The letter carrier loved the incoming, enjoying the nutty things that broke their daily monotony.

Eventually, life got in front of Mail Art, and I paused. For 25 years. Now it’s back in my life, still there, still carrying an undercurrent of that Fluxus Manifesto. This site is my way to share found work from fellow networkers and my own mail art artworks from the ’80s and ’90s, unfinished projects and now 2023 mail art and beyond. Most importantly, it’s about reconnecting old and meeting new friends across the Eternal Network of mail art artists.