Mail Art, as defined by myself, is taking a good piece of cardboard or better, illustration board... roughly 4"x6" in size (I tend to go from 5"x7.5" to 6"x9"). As they are larger than standard postcards, they exceed the current 23 cent postage within the USA. Sufficient postage would be 37 cents postage just like you were sending a standard letter. Going towards *anywhere* outside the USA, it would be wise to affix (don't you just LOVE that word?) a 90 cent Air Mail stamp. On the side that you place the stamp(s) goes the return and forwarding address and correspondence. Rubber stamping, random bits of artistic flourishes, your own show, do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight! On the other side, whatever it takes, baby! Acrylic paint, watercolor, drawing, collage, stitching, lights, camera, action! You don't have to be a star, baby... to be in my show;^)! Mail art is an expression of your soul... because every week or every day you ache to get something out in the post, you want to reach out to someone or a group of people who just might return the favor. My children, there isn't a damn thing wrong with calling attention to yourself. "Mail art... has strong links to the fanzine and music underground... Abstract Expressionism. Dada. Situationism. Fluxus. Neoism. Futurism. Bob's Church of the Subgenius. Discordianism. Nouveau Realism. The Art Strike. Rubber stamp art. Movements, philosophies, aesthetics, and issues rooted in mail art and fanzine publishing. I think we are making a deeper footprint in the sand of the art world than we think." - Michelle Rau, Alternative Press Review (Spring/Summer, 1994)