'the diary I let people read' (mail art)

'... my written diaries are private; they form a closed document of my world and allow me the distance to analyze it. 

my visual diary is public...'

- nan goldin, the ballad of sexual dependency, new introduction, march 1996.

well it's a rainy grey morning in the wild (when horsemouth writes this) and it will almost certainly be a rainy grey morning in the wild when you are reading this. 

yesterday a brief email exchange with colin (just to check how things are going). 

horsemouth's mail art collections (a preliminary survey)

following on from a recent suggestion on a comedy show, that instead of reading through old texts and emails on the bus you should bring a shoebox full of old letters, horsemouth plans to make an itemised list of his mail art. 

there was also a post on substack suggesting that the whole internet, mobile phone, email thing had been a dreadful mistake and that we should bring back landlines, letters, postcards and cassette tapes.

horsemouth thanks howard, rob lawson, TG. there may be some actual post that he's forgotten (if so please remind him). 

in addition to the three letters shown here horsemouth also has two books annotated by howard - millstone grit by glyn hughes and practicalities by marguerite duras. 

horsemouth has many more CDs, covering letters and poetry chap books from rob lawson. 

here's a selection. 

horsemouth also has a (small) collection of his friends other artworks/ comic books but as these were not posted to him they cannot be included here. (those are the rules as far as horsemouth understands them). 

here, out in the wilds, a frosty morning. horsemouth is off to the abbey in a bit.