I’ll let you into a secret…

…do you remember the Friends & Faux mail art project I hosted back in 2010? Well, it’s about to return! I’m currently in the process of building a new blog so that updates can be kept together all in one place. Due to moving house multiple times following the inception of the first run of the project, I did sadly let it slide off the back-burner once the initial wave of postcards was sent out. If you helped me track the project by forwarding a pic of one of the project postcards, though, please rest assured your reward (mini zine documentation) will finally be on the way to you within the next week. And I promise I have learned from my mistakes and will be far more efficient, this time around! Full details of the new project to follow shortly…

While I was working on the new Friends & Faux blog yesterday, I was reminded of one of the contributors to the very first F&F postcard – Beanie Mouse! Beanie is star of the Found Art Blog, c/o Andrea McNeill. Together, they create and then ‘lose’ labelled artwork around the south of England and the rest of the world, while the blog documents all the artwork as it is lost and then found again by happily unsuspecting members of the public. As I was browsing, I soon learned that Beanie is a somewhat prolific mail artist and artistamp creator. Above, you can see Beanie with Postcard #1 after adding his stamp, but this barely scratches the surface of his vast catalogue (album?) of work: