Seth Nicemail – conceptual correspondence art

Mail art uses physical media to create intellectually, visually, or artistically sophisticated communication, typically between two individuals. This is a fantastic concept – art has always connected people. Using the infrastructure of the postal system for this purpose is both logical and comprehensible.

For many years (since 2009), I have been actively engaged in artistic verbal communication on social media. I apply this one-to-many approach in a modified way to the physical world through mail art.

In conceptual correspondence art, the recipients may be unaware of each other, yet they are interconnected through the underlying artistic concept. They become part of the artwork, even without knowledge of the concept itself.

While each recipient of a piece may choose to appreciate it, ignore it, or discard it, a project is truly complete when – though this remains hypothetical – all recipients, including the artist, come together to reveal the bigger picture as a community.

Mail art projects