Mail Art Postcard. No. 4655…

But first…
Dulltown, UK/Europe: today’s unusual china teapot is the one shaped like the planet Saturn. This teapot is not a very good pourer – those rings are awkward in the hand, and they get in the way at the tea table.
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Aha! Another of my mail art postcards – a very simple collage on bright card using clippings from that awful trashy British TV listings magazine What’s On TV. Actually that magazine was getting so bloody annoying I have stopped buying it – I still have plenty of old cuttings from it to keep me going with the postcards though.

The postcard:
Are you disconcerted dear reader?
I hope so, that’s the idea! I love doing things like this, they are so simple, just picking out a couple of clippings at random and juxtaposing (love that word!) them to see how they interact with each other. This composition is surprisingly gripping considering that there’s not really much to it.
When us humans, and our fellow animals too, come across another being, be it human or animal, we immediately concentrate on the face, the eyes and the mouth – that’s evolution for you. Our brains are straightway calculating and deciding if this newly encountered being is a threat, and whether it wants to eat us, or not. If the eyes and mouth look a bit scary the brain sends the message, Come on legs! I think we’d better run away! Anyway, that’s my theory on why this card works so immediately, and so well.
Obviously I don’t know what it’s like for you, but my attention is constantly nipping backwards and forwards between the eyes and the mouth, looking for some sort of logic. And, we can’t help but make a face out of it, can we?  Who cares about noses and ears and cheeks and chins – we are happy to judge this face with just these two elements, even though they are completely out of proportion with each other – and even though we seem to have a female mouth and a chap’s eyes – it still works…
Similar to that idea which I proposed in my post yesterday, let’s imagine this image blown up very large, say at least about four metres by three, and displayed in a busy public place. Wow! Now that would be eye-catching!