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envelopes - first mail art project

april 2022

what is made out of paper? envelopes!... envelopes are for mail... floyd has a mail art project... been making transparent paper, which would produce envelopes with transparency which maybe isn't so desirable but kind of fun.
time to test... the phone i had taken pictures with on that day went kaput, but i have the first handmade paper envelope i made and sent (to myself) here with me now.




may 2022

making tons of sheets of abaca paper. the fiber was beaten for about four hours. i mixed in formation aid to be able to pull really thin sheets more easily. i added bits of blue cotton pulp to some of the sheets just to see how they would mix and for some color. once all the sheets were formed, dried, i trimmed them, cut them, folded them, glued them, and created envelopes in two sizes - slightly larger, slightly smaller. the smaller ones would go inside the larger, and then sent to people. halfway through the month i found out a paper mil in brooklyn sold envelope glue so i bought some and applied it to the smaller ones so that my friends would receive -legit- envelopes.




june 2022

collected my friends' addresses and dropped off about 11 envelopes in the mailbox.



received pictures of the envelopes from friends who got theirs. some arrived perfectly, some very wrinkled. i wonder what they will do with them.


july 2022

for the most part, they were received. two seem to have been lost. one was sent back to me and i already resent it, the person got it this time. i messed up the address. two still unknown.


august 2022

one more got returned to me, and it looks like it was mailed out twice. i need to resend it. the last person i recently saw, they said they received it. project almost done, for now.


november 2022

i got called a motherfucker by the last recipient. project over.