Trump's Coup and Covid Cuture - envelope Arte from Crackerjack Kid

Following on from Cascadia Artpost's Biden Our Time, Crackerjack Kid, sent me an exquisite envelope and some beautiful stamps (that got a little stuck in the envelope … from water?). The stamps on the envelope are difficult to see amidst teh envelope arte, which makes the whole package seem even more exotic.  I wonder if he had the envelope handstamped? anyway, very lovely and I am delighted to have it for my archives.

This is the cover of a 47 page spiral bound booklet - an annotated bibliography of nearly 400 mail art articles covering the era 1980-2000.  Offered for $18 including postage. 

 

Celebrating Fly Cult and Operation Cornflakes

My new correspondent, James Gillen, suggested that Chuck Welch, Crackerjack Kid, would like some of my portraits for heroes stamps, so I sent Chuck mail art from my latest series. It was thrilling to get a quick reply and some beautiful Lunar New Year mail art!

I didn't know Amalgamated Confusion was a collaborator. nor do I know much about Chuck's process.  This is my first mail art from him, I think, but I am delighted to be corresponding.

I noticed the Trump stamp and the german words and wanted to know more.  This is what I learned!

Operation Cornflakes was a morale operation by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that aimed to trick Deutsche Reichspost into inadvertently delivering anti-Nazi propaganda to German citizens through mail.^[1]

The operation involved special planes that were instructed to airdrop bags of false, but properly addressed, mail in the vicinity of bombed mail trains. When recovering the mail during clean-up of the wreck, the postal service would hopefully confuse the false mail for the real thing and deliver it to the various addresses.^[1]

You can read more here: Futsches Reich

Of course I will send more stamps and info.  Soon!