The full summer newsletter: Biden Our Time

So much in this, I don't know where to start.  My suggestion is to begin at the beginning and try not to cry. From "Post-Democracy"through the "Gilded-Age" it's a diorama to remember and inequality to grapple with. Wow, Cascadia, and I thought my stamps of the Post-Truth Senators took a long time and was a statement. Thank you for the nuance and the education, as well as the staggering imagery and the crafted diorama. I am a little relieved that I didn't get a second set of stamps. I am not sure I would be happy to laster my envelopes with these gilded individuals. But thank you!

 

Dada Trumph Motors - Cascadia Artpost

As well as my DADA Trumph Motors booklet, I am delighted to receive these commemorative stamps, I am hoping they become collectors items when the Trumphreich are out of the whitehouse!

'We do not notice that democracy has weakened, because its institutions and habits remain…'

as we wait for Trump to concede, Cascadia's terrifying diorama of imagined (but not far from the truth) Trumph Motors reinfoces all that we are bearing witness to.

This dystopian scene is particulalry impressive, but also dastardly. what is more iconic than the pool where children and their parents (and some older men that you wonder about) gather to sail boats. It underscores how aberrant this situation is. Those faces are also hard to look at.

posters of clan members...

another stunning exhibition captured in a booklet. It is simply amazing.

News from the Cascadia Diorama: they aren't closing post offices… they are opening a new Central PO in Cascadia!

A few years ago when I was doing a mail art project in a school I called up the post office to see if I could take a backstage tour of a post office. I got a lukewarm reception and ultimately the person they forwarded me on to never called back and I gave up. Cascadia Artpost's Diorama diaries answer all my questions and shows me everything I need know. 

HOW DID HE LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT THIS? 

And I have that feeling I get everytime I get a Diorama Diary that deja moment of awe and wonder, where does the energy and drive to complete such a painstaking project come from? Wherever the font of that is, it is greatly appreciated and admired. 

This part of the diorama project will have resonance for all mail artists and I notice this one doesn't pull the political strings, apart from the mask wearers. For me, I miss the popular culture nods and lampooning the president but that's about my only regret On balance, it is a more serious additon to Cascadia, but that's obvious.  Mail, mail art, is serious, right?

I loved seeing Mail Art Martha and the people in general in this diorama… I don't go out much anymore. Read throug, linger at the detail and take a behind-the scenes look at the story of our letters.  

Gorgeous envelope with artist stamps and forever stamps. Thank you Cascadia!