Valuable drawings by Marcel Janco, Brancusi, and Victor Brauner were shown for the first time ever thanks to anonymous heroes. Thus mail art becomes a force of defiance, resistance, and experimentation. The receiver just adds his or her contribution the message, rubber stamping it, collaging it, and finally re-posting it to the next mail connection. The hardest hit are the art agents, dealers, and the galleries, simply because mail art evades taxation, percentages, resales, appraisals, and other forms of artist exploitation. Correspondence art is still the freest form of exchange of ideas and collaboration, the most liberal and democratic art trading from artist to artist.
Every mail artist is also a lucky and rich collector.
And all thanks to Ray Johnson to whom I dedicate this poem manifesto. Till it evaporates random like poetry.