Editing Mail art (section)

==Quotations==
[[File:ADEker MailArt.jpg|upright|thumb|Mail art by A. D. Eker (Thuismuseum), 1985]]
<blockquote>Correspondence art is an elusive art form, far more variegated by its very nature than, say, painting. Where a painting always involves paint and a support surface, correspondence art can appear as any one of dozens of media transmitted through the mail. While the vast majority of correspondence art or mail art activities take place in the mail, today's new forms of electronic communication blur the edges of that forum. In the 1960s, when correspondence art first began to blossom, most artists found the postal service to be the most readily available – and least expensive – medium of exchange. Today's micro-computers with modern facilities offer anyone computing and communicating power that two decades ago were available only to the largest institutions and corporations, and only a few decades previous weren't available to anyone at any price. – [[Ken Friedman]]<ref name=FriedmanFlue>{{cite journal|last=Friedman|first=Ken|title=Mail art history: the Fluxus factor|journal=FLUE |year=1984|volume=4|issue=3–4|editor1-first=Martha|editor1-last=Wilson|publisher=Franklin Furnace}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Cultural exchange is a radical act. It can create paradigms for the reverential sharing and preservation of the earth's water, soil, forests, plants and animals. The ethereal networker aesthetic calls for guiding that dream through action. Cooperation and participation, and the celebration of art as a birthing of life, vision, and spirit are first steps. The artists who meet each other in the Eternal Network have taken these steps. Their shared enterprise is a contribution to our common future. – [[Chuck Welch]]<ref name="WelchAnthology" /></blockquote>

<blockquote>The purpose of mail art, an activity shared by many artists throughout the world, is to establish an aesthetical communication between artists and common people in every corner of the globe, to divulge their work outside the structures of the art market and outside the traditional venues and institutions: a free communication in which words and signs, texts and colours act like instruments for a direct and immediate interaction. – Loredana Parmesani<ref>Loredana Parmesani, text under the entry "Poesia visiva", in ''L'arte del secolo – Movimenti, teorie, scuole e tendenze 1900–2000'', Giò Marconi – Skira, Milan 1997 {{full citation needed|date=January 2013}}</ref></blockquote>