Rome 2006, detail of a mail art piece
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."
Baby
BABY was a mail art piece. A postcard was sent to a pregnant friend everyday of the last 2 months of her pregnancy. The front image on the cards were newspaper headlines and assorted stories and photos from the news. The back images were photos which formed a montage of the pregnant woman's home. The postcards were sent untilthe baby was born.
