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Graphic Mail art

Presented in various locations and museums in Israel, Finland, France, and Germany. It consists of a selection of envelopes that have housed letters of love and friendship addressed to my girlfriends and friends over a span of about twenty years. Various graphics covering a wide range of techniques: painting, photography, collages, drawing, trompe-l'oeil, sewing, burning, frying, etc...

The letters have always reached their recipients except for one that was returned to me due to an address error.



At the beginning, the envelopes were just magazine pages, folded and glued Then, simple collages and playing with stamps Birthday wishes. Counting the number of candles to know the age of the young woman. Mirror game. The address is written backward. The postmen played along and delivered the item without correcting the address. Each time they had to find a mirror. The cable is plugged in. Slide of an envelope that was stolen from me during an exhibition. It would make a psychologist happy, as it's a sequence of symbols that goes from the church in Auvers-sur-Oise, passing through the wallpaper pattern, the mezuzah shaped like a penis. The cable is unplugged. An envelope entirely made of black and white lace. Question-answer between stamps. The address had an error and the US Post Office wisely stamped "return to sender." (me). Love sent back to the sender. A self-portrait that piques curiosity but stops short of lifting the stamp. On the back of this envelope, you could see me from behind. The stamp of the Maison de la Culture de Bourges was used here to pierce the heart. a variation. I had burned the lower left corner of the envelope to complete the flame effect. A bit obtuse, the postman wrote: "Damaged by an inflammable object introduced into the mailbox." After investigation, the letter reached its recipient six months later, with apologies from the French Post Office. A letter to a friend, who was also a professor of Eastern philosophy. The stamp is on the back of the envelope. A stamp that inspired a long series of envelopes. This stamp celebrated the first Paris-New York crossing. Bingo! I wanted to announce my upcoming visit to N.Y.C. I must admit I don't quite understand what I did there. A tribute to Elyezer Ben Yehuda, the man who revived Hebrew in the late 19th century. style BD On the left, the real stamp; on the right, the same stamp partially cleaned with acetone and redrawn. no commentary embossed and torn paper After Rabin's assassination, the stamp of Herzl, the founder of Zionism, is tampered with by me. I had the envelope perforated. Rabin, on the other hand, was perforated by bullets. I cleaned with acetone a sheet of stamps featuring the founder of Zionism. Only the eye remains, shipwrecked. Israeli stamp commemorating the liberation of the camps. I illustrated it with the transcription, in English, of one of my dreams on this subject. A German stamp commemorating the liberation of the camps. The same dream, translated this time into German




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