2. Brooke Richards

Albany, New York

1. Ruel Brown

Provo, Utah

The Big Project

So, now to start blogging the reason i started this blog. Underneath this text you will find a ledger with some of its graphed pages below it. In addition to collecting hundreds of cutting boards and knife blocks i have also collected scrapbooks and ledgers. Since this one has a ring binder which allows removement and replacement of its pages i thought it would be a great thing to send those pages around the country and collect responses to the ledger paper. Since i have sent them to friends, it not only a collaborative art project, but a way to keep in touch. Some participants immediately drew on their paper and sent it, others might take a year. This blog is for the electronic collection of each image as it comes back to me here in Richmond. This way instead of waiting two years to try and get a copy of the finished collection, it will be available to everyone bit by bit here at mail bonding.

I used the first two pages of the ledger to record the process of collecting particpants and recording the mailing stages. The order is according to the order i received responses back from mass emails asking for mailing addresses.


Interestingly, some of the last to be sent ledger paper were the first to respond.

and now to blog the work!

Recent Mail From Grant Sebastian Penrod




i like to think of them as a diptych, but i can't seem to make blogger show them side by side.



Ruel wishes so bad that he made these teddy monsters.

even before the happiness of getting this letter with those monsters and the thank-yous and the art, my happiness was assured by this sticker on the envelope:

Ohura! this is from the same family that sent me a Connie Chung valentine two years ago. Brilliant.

Chris Coy sent me this zine he made of one of his trips. His little book featured below is the main inspiration for the collaborative mail project i've begun. It was Chris's idea to do collaborative art zines - so i thought i'd blog this before we get images blogged of the incoming group project. Here's to his great ideas and energy and making art out of everything he touches. Enjoy:

Thanks to Kirsten Stavast for sending her uncle Bobo so many drawings!
This is her latest. I hope you can read the descriptions of this instrument she thought up.

i found these superstamps and couldn't resist finding an excuse to mail things.


the excuse: art

Welcome to mail bonding, a site where friends make drawings and send them back in envelopes. Stay tuned to see what shows up in my Richmond mailbox from all across the country.