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# Mail Art Bulletin: Dropping In
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/mail-art-bulletin-dropping-in/
- Published: 2011-04-20T15:04:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:02:49.000Z
- Description: This anonymous work — the first we've received — is the most digital image, and informed by digital aesthetics, we've received. While most mail art lends itself to a handmade and analog quality, here the artist has gone to the other extreme and sent us a digital print on photo paper with no indicati
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Mail Art, Mail Art Bulletin, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-top.jpg "parachutemail-TOP")

The latest edition of the [**Mail Art Bulletin**](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/mail-art-bulletin/) arrived with no indication of the artist’s identity and only a postmark that let us know it was mailed in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

This anonymous work — the first we’ve received — is the most digital image, and informed by digital aesthetics, we’ve received. While most mail art lends itself to a handmade and analog quality, here the artist has gone to the other extreme and sent us a digital print on photo paper with no indication of context.

I also appreciated the pattern of 10 and five cent stamps on the envelope, which echoes the patterned geometry within.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-01.jpg "parachutemail-01")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-02.jpg "parachutemail-02")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-03.jpg "parachutemail-03")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-04.jpg "parachutemail-04")

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/04/parachutemail-05.jpg "parachutemail-05")

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