BLAST!

BLAST! This piece was exhibited  at Branchville Gallery in Ridgefield, CT in 2004.

L.P.Streitfeld from  The Stamford Advocate wrote this about the piece in a review on June 6, 2004.

"On March 11, The New York Times front-page headline announced a deadly bomb explosion in Spain. Margaret Roleke responded by pasting the headline on a blank postcard and mailing it to the Branchville Gallery, .. This and the postcards that followed were taped to the gallery window as they arrived. In this manner, a piece of mail gave birth to a guerilla-style  art show celebrating the grand opening of a cutting-edge gallery."BLAST!" is the title of Roleke's mail art installation in the front window of the gallery introducing the inaugural exhibit of the same name.Facing outside are the backs of the postcards with newspaper photos of war and turmoil.The other sides form a photo collage of the artist celebrating with family and friends.Roleke also sent mailing tubes, which could be mistaken for rockets, plastered with photos of peoplewearing facew masks evoking memories of 9/11and the terrorist environment."