Benjamin Roe: Mail Art

to russell manning

2011-02-01T16:01:00.001-05:00

sent 02.02.2011. 4" x 6". front and back.

to gerard barbot

2011-02-01T15:49:00.007-05:00

front(s) and back(s). mailed 12.20.2010.

from Kate Harper

2010-10-04T17:25:00.003-04:00

received 10.01.2010.

mailart to kate harper

2010-09-10T18:06:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4 1/8" x 5 7/8". sent 09.11.2010

mailart to steve storz

2010-08-25T18:54:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6 1/8". sent 08.26.2010.

from dread lippencott

2010-08-23T15:28:00.005-04:00

front & back. 5" x 7". received summer 2010.

sent to my old address. my new address is: 314 Iron Avenue SE Albuquerque NM 87102

exchange with terry craig 3

2010-08-02T16:30:00.008-04:00

front & back. sent 10.15.2010

front & back. received 09.08.2010

front & back. sent 08.16.2010.

front & back. received 08.10.2010.

front & back. 4 1/8" x 5 7/8". initial postcard in exchange.

postcard to X-Bear

2010-07-22T22:54:00.003-04:00

front & back. 4 1/8" x 5 7/8".

exchange with jill zaccardi

2010-07-22T19:47:00.005-04:00

front & back. sent 08.16.2010.

received 08.08.2010.

front & back. 4 1/8" x 5 7/8". initial card in exchange.

exchange with mike pappa 3

2010-07-22T18:57:00.007-04:00

front & back. sent 10.20.2010.

received 10.01.2010.

front and back. 4 1/8" x 5 7/8". initial card in exchange.

mailart to gerard barbot

2010-07-20T01:30:00.003-04:00

back and front. 4" x 5 7/8".

from Kate Harper

2010-05-21T09:21:00.004-04:00

front and back.

mailart to voodoo project

2009-10-04T16:28:00.001-04:00

front & back. 3.5" x 5.5".

mailart to dread lippencott's menagerie

2009-09-26T18:12:00.006-04:00

response postcard from dread lippencott's menagerie. Received October 24, 2009.

front & back. 4" x 5.5".

sent September 26, 2009.

mailart to gerard barbot

2009-09-26T15:40:00.003-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6".

sent September 26, 2009.

mailart for ticket to jerusalem project

2009-09-25T20:08:00.002-04:00

front & back. 3" x 8" (the size of an airline boarding pass). sent September 26, 2009.

from rhonda feinman

2009-09-23T19:23:00.005-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6".

I received this in September 2009. 4-6 weeks ago, i sent a postal to rhonda, letting her know of this blogspot.

from gerard barbot

2009-09-23T16:38:00.012-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". found under the seat in my car November 26th, 2009.

front & back. 4" x 6". received September 2009.

from gerard barbot

2009-08-25T13:23:00.006-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6".

front & back. 4" x 6". These postcards were all received from Gerard, August 2009.

from BEE

2009-08-25T13:15:00.002-04:00

front & back. 4.25" x 6". received July 15, 2009.

from gerard barbot

2009-08-25T13:04:00.003-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6".

Gerard sent me a series of cards all around the same time. This is the only card I can locate at the moment. I have the others I just can't remember where I put them...

from x bear

2009-08-25T12:50:00.004-04:00

front & back. 3.5" x 5.5". I received this February 12, 2007.

exchange with steve storz

2009-08-13T18:59:00.005-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". initial postcard sent November 21, 2006.

step 2. received December 18, 2006.

step 3. sent February 6, 2007.

step 4. received April 12, 2007.

step 5. sent September 1, 2007.

final step (?) in our interchange. received June 2009. My sister Marcy handed me this card in June of this year when we were together for the burial of our mother. She said it had arrived earlier in the year, but months after I had moved from Massachusetts back to Indianapolis.

I met Steve at a workshop in Taos, New Mexico in October of 2006.

exchange with norina morales 3

2009-08-11T16:03:00.005-04:00

front & back. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". initial postcard sent to Norina.

step 2.

final (?) version of postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place in 2008.

exchange with norina morales 2

2009-08-11T15:14:00.006-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". initial postcard sent to Norina.

step 2.

step 3.

final version in our interchange. This interchange took place between March 23, 2007 and winter 2007/08 (i forgot to write down the actual date I received her final version).

exchange with nathan ritterpusch 3

2009-08-10T19:00:00.005-04:00

back only. 4.25" x 9". initial postcard sent to Nathan.

step 2. final interchange. this interchange took place between January 23, 2007 and February 26, 2007.

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back only. 4.25" x 9". initial postcard sent.

step 2.

step 3.

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place from early spring 2007 until September 4, 2007.

mailart to shelly turner

2009-08-10T17:24:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4.25" x 9". this was sent September 4, 2007.

Unfortunately, this postcard, for whatever reason, never reached Shelly. It's too bad because I really liked this card: the dimensions of the card itself and all those lips!

exchange with brooke jacobs 2

2009-08-10T17:06:00.005-04:00

back & front. 4 1/4" x 9".

step 2.

step 3.

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place in summer and fall of 2007.

mailart to ron markman

2009-08-10T16:09:00.005-04:00

front & back. 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". sent February 9, 2007.

Ron Markman was a professor of mine in the BFA program at Indiana University.

exchange with rhonda feinman

2009-08-09T17:06:00.010-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". initial postcard sent to Rhonda.

step 2.

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place between November 29, 2006 and December 18, 2006.

I met Rhonda at a workshop in Taos, New Mexico in October of 2006.

mailart to gerard barbot

2009-08-07T17:17:00.008-04:00

front & back. 5" x 7". sent February 9, 2007.

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front & back. 6" x 12". sent August 20, 2007.

This postcard that I sent to Gerard is 3 individual 4x6 in. postcards that were taped together to make one continuous piece but gatefolded over and taped shut. The mailing dimensions were 4" x 6" until unfolded.

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front & back. 4" x 6". this postcard was sent sometime 2008.

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front & back. 4" x 6". sent November 14, 2006. this was a postcard that I sent to Gerard for one of his projects. I don't think I ever found out what this project was...

This was done on a BWAC postcard, that I modified. The postage stamp is really great - very graphic, in an old-school way. I love ordering stamps from the USPS...tiny artworks, every time. I know in this day and age, people poo-poo "snail mail"...but I still think the idea that for a relatively (incredibly?!) small amount of money, one can send a physical letter to - literally - anyplace on the globe. I still think that is one of the coolest things ever...

mailart to mike andrews

2009-08-07T17:04:00.006-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". sent on November 14, 2006. There was no response to this postcard...

mailart to randall la gro

2009-08-07T15:39:00.006-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". sent November 28, 2006. There was no response to this postcard...

mailart to greg perkins

2009-08-07T15:21:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". sent to Greg Perkins on November 29, 2006. I met Greg at a workshop in Taos, New Mexico in October 2006. There was no response to this postcard...

mailart with corky lillick

2009-08-07T14:52:00.005-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". sent November 8, 2006.

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front & back. 6" x 8 3/8". sent by Corky Lillick and received December 1, 2006.

step 2. I don't know if Corky expected or wanted me to modify his postcard and send it back to him but I did it anyway. I never heard one way or the other...

mailart to steve mckenzie

2009-08-04T19:32:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6". sent November 6, 2006.

I met Steve McKenzie, President & CEO of Larson-Juhl, at a workshop in Taos, New Mexico in October of 2006.

mailart to kenneth green

2009-08-04T19:18:00.004-04:00

front & back. 4" x 6" . sent August 15, 2006.

mailart to cody drasser

2009-08-04T19:03:00.005-04:00

front & back. 4 1/4" x 7 3/4". sent April 16, 2007.

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front & back. 4" x 6". sent August 7, 2006.

mailart to paul macfarland

2009-08-04T18:51:00.003-04:00

postcard sent to Paul MacFarland. front & back. 4" x 6". July 9, 2006.

exchange with nathan ritterpusch 2

2009-08-04T18:25:00.005-04:00

initial postcard sent to Nathan Ritterpusch. front & back of 4.25" x 6" postcard.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place between July 12, 2006 and October 31, 2006.

mail art sent to x bear

2009-08-02T18:46:00.004-04:00

this postcard was mailed to X Bear Maxwell on December 11, 2006.

this postcard was sent to X Bear Maxwell on February 16, 2007. This postcards dimensions are 4" x 9".

exchange with terry craig 2

2009-08-02T18:19:00.006-04:00

initial postcard sent to Terry Craig.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

step 6.

final postcard in our interchange. This complete interchange took place between July 17, 2006 and January 8, 2007.

exchange with jing-si feng

2009-08-02T16:23:00.005-04:00

initial postcard sent to Jing-Si Feng.

step 2. She told me she didn't like what she did to the postcard so she just cut the whole thing up. You can imagine my surprise when she first handed it back to me...

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place between July 12, 2006 and August 13, 2006.

exchange with mike pappa 2

2009-08-02T15:30:00.006-04:00

initial postcard sent to mike pappa.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

final postcard in our interchange. note that Denzel's head flips down. This complete interchange took place between July 19, 2006 and February 23, 2007.

exchange with brooke jacobs

2009-08-01T20:39:00.004-04:00

initial postcard sent to Brooke Jacobs.

final postcard from our interchange. This reproduction of Brooke's postcard does not do it justice...it was so amazing that there was no way I could re-work it and send it back to her. If I can locate the original, I will scan it and post it in its entirety...

exchange with norina morales

2009-08-01T19:43:00.005-04:00

initial postcard sent to norina morales.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

final postcard from our interchange. This interchange took place between July 22, 2006 and October 12, 2006.

exchange with cody drasser

2009-07-30T19:53:00.006-04:00

initial postcard for the interchange with Cody Drasser. In this case, Cody created the primary postcard and sent it to me.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5. Note that the postcard was cut in two, rearranged, and stitched back together.

final step in our interchange. This complete interchange took place between July 11, 2006 and August 31, 2006.

exchange with david selters

2009-07-30T17:40:00.005-04:00

initial postcard that I gave to David Selters.

step 2.

final postcard in our interchange. This interchange took place between September 23, 2005 and November 13, 2005.

exchange with mike pappa

2009-07-28T20:04:00.005-04:00

this is the initial postcard I sent to Mike Pappa.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

this is the final version of our postcard interchange. This interchange took place between September 21, 2005 and March 22, 2006.

exchange with nathan ritterpusch.

2009-07-25T12:11:00.007-04:00

initial postcard sent to Nathan Ritterpusch.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

step 6.

step 7.

final postcard. This interchange took place between september 19, 2005 and march 19, 2006.

exchange with gerard barbot 2

2009-07-25T11:30:00.008-04:00

initial postcard sent to Gerard Barbot.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

final step. This complete interchange took place between november 11, 2005 and september 8, 2006.

exchange with terry craig

2009-07-06T15:18:00.008-04:00

initial postcard sent to Terry Craig.

step 2.

step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

step 6.

step 7.

step 8. Final postcard interchange. The complete interchange took place from September 16, 2005 to March 22, 2006.

exchange with gerard barbot

2009-07-06T11:18:00.009-04:00

This is the initial postcard (back/front) for our interchange.

There is a skipped step in our interchange. I forgot to document Gerard's return postcard from my initial mailing. This is step 3.

step 4.

step 5.

step 6.

step 7.

final postcard. This interchange took place between September 1, 2005 and October 20, 2005.

norina

2009-02-08T20:43:00.004-05:00

front and back.

cody

2009-02-02T16:20:00.005-05:00

front.

envelope

2008-10-21T22:47:00.005-04:00

front.

norina

2008-08-26T21:58:00.003-04:00

front and back

gerard

2008-08-23T18:19:00.003-04:00

front and back.

norina

2008-07-28T17:35:00.003-04:00

front and back.

lorraine kwan

2008-06-02T18:48:00.005-04:00

front and back. documentation from a mail art show i participated in in canada: see "ballsofdub goes to canada" in my posts from 2007. the show looks great! i am referred to as Benroe (one word). Lorraine had mentioned on her blog earlier that she didn't know if my name was Ben Roe or Benroe.

norina

2008-06-02T18:30:00.004-04:00

front and back.

norina

2008-05-07T15:51:00.004-04:00

front and back.

brooke

2008-04-07T13:01:00.003-04:00

front and back.

susan

2008-04-07T12:55:00.007-04:00

front and back. 4" x 6".

terry

2008-04-02T08:40:00.005-04:00

I use cardboard as painting palette. A week ago, I just cut out the interesting part of a palette and sent it to my good friend Terry...really just to see if a piece of cardboard could go through the mail. Well, the answer is yes...but there are apparently some additional charges for items that can't go through the USPS sorting machines, as evident by the label affixed to my returned cardboard. Now we know some of the rules...

orlando

2008-02-03T17:09:00.002-05:00

front and back. Orlando is a friend of mine that I met at Pearl Paint in Manhattan. He is currently studying cinematography in Prague, Czech Republic.

A response from Greece...

2007-12-18T14:10:00.002-05:00

Envelope and inside card. I got this in the mail today as a response to the postcard I sent to Greece...

for G. & F. Barbot

2007-11-15T09:49:00.000-05:00

Front and back. I created this card for my very good friend and Mail Art Mentor, Gerard Barbot, and his Pop. They are going through some tough medical issues right now. Behind Roger Moore and the girls, is a sample of Gerard's postage stamp tribute to Wallace Berman... and on the address side, the background is a sample of Fernand's stamp page of his work.

ballsofdub rides the pony express

2007-11-15T09:39:00.001-05:00

Front and back. This is a card i created to send to Pony Express zine in Philly...there is no real theme to it...just stuff. I like the bigger sized card - roughly 4" x 9" - because it is more panoramic... although most mail art entries ask for the standard 4"X6". The flowers-with-skulls-inside imagery is from Mexico...and brought back to me by Brooke from her recent trip there...goes nicely with the Emperor stamp.

ballsofdub heads to greece

2007-11-14T15:12:00.001-05:00

Front and back. This card is going to Greece and the theme was Philosophy (did I spell that right?)...the idea of the inevitable and that there always is a bigger fish...

ballsofdub to canada

2007-11-14T15:06:00.001-05:00

Front and back. This is a card I'm sending to canada. The theme is clocks...

To see more, go to http://www.paperandpostage.blogspot.com/

ballsofdub for luxemburg

2007-11-14T15:01:00.003-05:00

Front and back. For a while now I thought this card was going to Luxemburg...the country. When actually it went to Luxemborg...the town in Wisconsin. I guess i didn't need to put so much postage on it.