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Altered Text Mail Art

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Group:Amazing Mail ART
Swap Coordinator:wolfeagle (contact)
Swap categories: Mail Art 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:March 12, 2016
Date items must be sent by:March 24, 2016
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

In this swap, you will create either one found poetry ATC or one found poetry mail art postcard, for your one partner. Postcards may be any size and are to be mailed Naked. Please mail ATCs in a decorated envelope.

Simply glue text, like a book page or two, newspaper, or magazine page, etc, to your base. Then search the words to make your own story/poetry. Circle or Box your words and connect them in order of your found poetry. Do not just circle random words and call it done.....actually try to make something that makes sense.

You can do blackout poetry (where you color out everything except your chosen words) or found poetry, also sometimes called altered text poetry (where you circle your words and connect them in some way) . You can then choose to draw a design, or use color, or one color to highlight around your words.

HERE are some examples on Pinterest.

Have fun.

Discussion

FiWebster 03/12/2016 #

Any chance you could bump the send-by date forward a week? I know it would be a special favor, but I have a 16-yr-old art student (my great-niece) to whom I would love to introduce this technique—but she's tied up the weekend of Mar. 18-20, and wouldn't be able to meet w/ me until the following Friday... I'll understand if you say no... =smile=

wolfeagle 03/12/2016 #

Sent PM.

FiWebster 03/12/2016 #

By the way, those examples on Pinterest really opened up my awareness of how interesting this technique can be. Thanks for that link, Angela!

wolfeagle 03/13/2016 #

You're welcome.

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