[Untitled, wood envelope to Tjeerd Deelstra, Delft]
Ken Friedman
1972/1974
[Untitled, wood envelope to Tjeerd Deelstra, Delft]
[Untitled, wood envelope to Tjeerd Deelstra, Delft]
[Untitled, wood envelope to Tjeerd Deelstra, Delft]
An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ...
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[Untitled, wood envelope to Tjeerd Deelstra, Delft]
Ken Friedman
1972/1974
San Diego
A piece of raw or found wood, stamped and franked for postal delivery, sent through the mail without an envelope or container — the wood itself serving as both artwork and postal object
13.4 × 23 cm
Unique

An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ran a major private Fluxus and mail-art archive there, and later collaborated with Friedman to establish Fluxus West Europa. The piece collapses the distinction between artwork, mail, and freight: consistent with Fluxus mail art practice, it treats the postal system itself as an active medium, and an ordinary material as a sufficient vehicle for artistic intent.

San Diego
A piece of raw or found wood, stamped and franked for postal delivery, sent through the mail without an envelope or container — the wood itself serving as both artwork and postal object
13.4 × 23 cm
Unique

An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ran a major private Fluxus and mail-art archive there, and later collaborated with Friedman to establish Fluxus West Europa. The piece collapses the distinction between artwork, mail, and freight: consistent with Fluxus mail art practice, it treats the postal system itself as an active medium, and an ordinary material as a sufficient vehicle for artistic intent.

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An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ran a major private Fluxus and mail-art archive there, and later collaborated with Friedman to establish Fluxus West Europa. The piece collapses the distinction between artwork, mail, and freight: consistent with Fluxus mail art practice, it treats the postal system itself as an active medium, and an ordinary material as a sufficient vehicle for artistic intent.

San Diego
A piece of raw or found wood, stamped and franked for postal delivery, sent through the mail without an envelope or container — the wood itself serving as both artwork and postal object
13.4 × 23 cm
Unique

An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ran a major private Fluxus and mail-art archive there, and later collaborated with Friedman to establish Fluxus West Europa. The piece collapses the distinction between artwork, mail, and freight: consistent with Fluxus mail art practice, it treats the postal system itself as an active medium, and an ordinary material as a sufficient vehicle for artistic intent.

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An untreated piece of wood, affixed with postage stamps and mailed directly — no packaging, no envelope — to Fluxus collector Tjeerd Deelstra in Delft, the Netherlands. Deelstra, a professor at Delft University of Technology, ran a major private Fluxus and mail-art archive there, and later collaborated with Friedman to establish Fluxus West Europa. The piece collapses the distinction between artwork, mail, and freight: consistent with Fluxus mail art practice, it treats the postal system itself as an active medium, and an ordinary material as a sufficient vehicle for artistic intent.

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