1980. The Irene Dogmatic Paper Doll Book
June 11, 2018E.V. note: This was the 1st Mail Art publication organized by someone else that I had something in. It's accurate enough to say that my Mike Film Distribution Form #1 (1978) & Mike Film Distribution Form #2 (1979) predated it as 'Mail Art" publications that I initiated. I was excited about this, it was in the early days of my being a publishing slut.
Irene Dogmatic sent out a picture of herself in leopard skin underwear & asked people to make paper dolls for herself as the doll & to send the results back to her for compilation in this. All participants were told they'd receive a contributor's copy, standard practice. When the time came, she told us we had to pay because she couldn't afford to make & send out the copies otherwise. I was a little annoyed but too excited to have something in the book to be that irritated.
I didn't want to make paper doll clothes in any ordinary sense so I chose to cut out something from a page of the Baltimore City Paper in the shape of her body. I wanted to do something simple that would be stringingly effective. I like the result. It was done as "MT", the initials of my abridged given name that can also be read as the abbreviation of "mountain" & as a phonetic way of writing "empty".
It's great to look at this book 38 years later & see work by so many people familiar to me from Mail Art days. It's also great to see 3 contributions from my girlfriend of the time, Laurie Stepp, going under the name "Lollie Debris". She wasn't involved with Mail Art but seeing this reminds me that when I told her about the project she must've thought it would be fun. Mail Art had a way of appealing to many more people than most other things I was involved with.
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