The summer has begun because my family is spending the long weekend in our "ancestral" camp (cottage) by the shore of East Caroga Lake. Being away from home, I felt compelled to create some mailart, so I took one of the shortest visual poems I've ever made (a mere 1.5 letters in length, a creation of last night's experiments with my new steel pens [a birthday present]) and affixed it to the outside of an envelope the inside of which is a detailed road map. Inside the envelope, I placed a sheet of paper holding a failed experiment from last night's inking. This sheet I folded "message" side out, the reverse of expectations, so that the recipient will unfold it to find no message at all. Of course, this is a riff on the envelope that carries the message. But I explained myself further with a note affixed to the premlip of the envelope: "the carrier of the message." I also "signed" the envelope with my calligraphic poem signature (little used): f.
Geof Huth, "Rt" (28 May 2005)
The people who will receive a copy of "Rt" (qbdp # 57, Scrapmail # 3) are as follows:
1/10 Ruth and Marvin Sackner
2/10 Bob Grumman
3/10 Roy Arenella
4/10 Mick Boyle
5/10 Ruud Janssen
6/10 Reed Altemus
7/10 Jassy Lupa
8/10 frips
9/10 Gustave Morin
10/10 qbdp
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