Matthew Murray, Vancouver Canada

City in Decay, 2008
modified postcard with fire, ballpoint pen and tape
4" x 6"

David Berube, New York USA

On the reverse side David Berube writes:

"This creature is a hybrid created by toxic waste combining with insect larvae & hatching in the pods of the insanitateous vinus plant. This creature, although harmless looking, will engulf it's victim with it's vine-like appendages & strangle to death it's prey."

Now that's a cold embrace!
-Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General, MoD

Insanitateous vinus plant, 2008
Lino block print, collage and perforations on recycled card
4" x 6"

Josh Ronsen, Texas USA

Proposal for Luxury Apartment Building, 2008
ink jet on card
4" x 6"

Karen L. Chew, California USA

Venice Rising, 2008

collage and letraset
7" x 5"

Roland Halbritter, Germany

Metropolis 9/11

collage, rubber stamp and drawings on old handwritten card board
8" x 5"


au verso

John M. Bennett, Columbus OH, USA

From the Library of Destructon

Fabio Sassi, Bologna Italy

Fabio Sassi, 2008

spray paint, stencil/resist & rubber stamp
4 1/4" x 5 3/4"

au verso

Daniel de Culla, Spain

Information is a control mechanism when distributed by the few, but shared freely it is a form of enlightenment. This correspondence has fallen victim to the prior.
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

Collaborative improve, 2008
Daniel de Culla & Ian-Patrick McAllister
colour photo copy and collage
11" x 8 1/2"

Beatriz Albuquerque,

Both accident and chance have left their mark on this piece!

Beatriz Albuquerque, 2008
collage and ball point pen
5 1/2" x 5"

au verso

Reply to Judy Skolnick

Destructon Cityscape, 2008
india ink, watercolour, rubber stamp & perforations
6" x 4 1/2"

Judy-
Your stylized depiction of the droves of forgotten denizens living amongst the waste management systems below Destructon is simple and yet powerfully illustrative of the unspoken reality. These people bare the weight of an entire industrialized Metropolis on their backs, hidden away below the surface toiling amongst the roots and arteries that sustain the gleaming towers above, without reward.
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

Judy Skolnick, Washington DC, USA

Underground Labrinth, 2008
coloured marker on card
4" x 6"

Roxxanne Clark, Louisville KY, USA

Roxanne Clark, Word on the Street 2008
collage and acrylic paint
4" x 6"

au verso

Click pic to enlarge & view.

John M. Bennett, Columbus OH, USA

Received this envelop with a marker sketch on the front, containing some destroyed buildings, cityscapes and text. The visual poem is a wonderful piece that has the effect of strobing vivid images of the urban environment in my mind.

Try repeat reading 3 to 5 times

collaboration, 2008
John M. Bennett and Sheila E. Murphy

collaboration, 04/23/2008
John M. Bennett and Musicmaster


John M. Bennett, 2008

Collaborator links:

Sheila E. Murphy, visual poet: Wikipedia

Kieth A. Buchholz, St. Louis, Mo USA

Social Club circa 1947
inkjet and marker
5 1/2" x 4"

Marie Marcano, Surfside Florida USA

Marie Marcano, 2008
sumi ink on paper
4 1/2" x 5 1/2"

Reply to Schoko, Berlin Germany

Schoko-
Thank you, if you ever have the opportunity to visit look me up. I'll give you a tour. If you look deeply into this Metropolis it will reveal a truth that will chill the blood. The city is an abstract concept, beyond physicality, time and place. It is without subject matter, without memory. The city is absence in as much.

-Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

absence is as much, 2008

india ink, rubber stamp, typewriter & collage
4" x 6"

John Held Jr., San Francisco, California USA

Received this wonderful rubber stamped envelop filled with goodies today. Some ATCs, an archival document of "Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean" 2001, and a sheet of artistamps that I am seriously considering adding to and sending them out affixed to M.o.D replies.

It's been a very long time since I could actually get away from my work at the Post Office, but last vacation I took some eons ago was to Fluxus Island in Décollage Ocean. Fishing and swimming was great off of Ginger Island, you just had to look out for ubu sharks!
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

ATCs:

top: Tim Mancusi
bottom: John Held Jr.

Artistamp: John Held Jr. 2008
oil pastel & crayon on postage paper
11" x 8 1/2"

REFERENCE:

Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean: A Korean Travel Diary, John Held Jr. Jeju Travel Diary

Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean: A Korean Travel Diary: John Held Jr. Part II

Reproduction: Nam June Paik, "Décollage 4/63", 1963

Sassu Antonio, Gruppo Sinestetico - Italy

Architecture project future, 2008
stickers, pen, marker and rubber stamp
4" x 6"

Matt Dalby, Manchester UK

Matt Dalby, 2008
coloured pencil and pen
5 1/2" x 3 1/2" ea.

Reply to Clemente, Montevideo Uruguay

Clemente-
The 'high price of fame' indeed. After the massive collapse of the Corporate superstructure following the Energy Independence Wars only a few corporations where left to flourish within their respective industries. Now our choices are few and the control over our needs are great.
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

Over looking the Miscanthanol refineries, 2008
pen & ink w/ rubber stamp
4" x 6"

REFERENCE
1. Oil Wars; Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
2. Cellulosic Ethanol: Fuel of the Future?
3. How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline. Forever!
4. Miscanthus x giganteus - as an energy crop - Research at the University of Illinois