acid to zinc: arbitrary postal art
Ongoing mail-art / serial artists’ book project

Acid to Zinc: Volumes A & B are currently available at the super cheap price of $10/ea.
Volume C is coming soon.

Order from me on the honor system or online from Printed Matter.

Acid to Zinc: Arbitrary Postal Art
Acid to Zinc is an attempt to engage and draw response from a geographically and demographically diverse audience. As a means to reach people outside - or unaware - of the Art World, we are using the U.S. Postal Service as a vehicle to disseminate art. Acid to Zinc is a pamphlet sized serial artists’ book. Incorporated images and text are both original and appropriated - pulled from popular forms of communication (advertising, newspapers, magazines), found books, and reference materials. Based on the English alphabet for simplicity and accessibility, it is absurdist and intuitive – a collage in the spirit of automatic writing.

We start with A.
The first issue, Volume A, is controlled by the letter A: all images relate to A, all text begins with A, and the mailing list is determined by A. The second issue, Volume B, is controlled by B: all images relate to B, all text begins with B, and the mailing list is determined by B, and so on. For example, out of an edition of 100, 50 of Volume A were mailed to people with the last name Anderson (most common surname beginning with A in the United States) who live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, and Arkansas, while the remaining 50 are to be sold to support the project. For Volume B, the edition grew to include the original A mailing list, a B mailing list comprised of people with last name Brown living in Brownsvilles, and the reserve for sale. And so on through to the letter Z.

Acid to Zinc will be produced as a quarterly publication- or as close to quarterly as possible. Volume A was issued in September 2004, Volume B in February 2005. Volume Z is projected to be distributed in December 2010.