Mailart – a subversive form of expression

Stampart on envelope, Hans-Ruedi Fricker,,Switzerland, 1986

I am very thankful that I was in touch with Hans-Ruedi for many years by mail. And in the 1980s I also visited him at his creative office in Trogen. Me and my wife were his family’s guests in this nice alpine region “Appenzeller Land”. We were just tourists looking for leisure and trying to learn a little bit more about Switzerland.

Yummi! Monstrous windbags enjoyed at Cafe Seeblick, Alt-Globsow, Germany, July 7 2023

And yes, Hans-Ruedi was completely right, tourism is just as important as mail-art. Both bring people from other countries together for a better understanding of our nice blue planet and such securing peace here in Europe and everywhere on Earth.

Programmatic messages by mail, Hans-Ruedi Fricker, Switzerland, 1983

P. S.  I am writing all this as a mere tourist while being some days in the very nice and natural green old village of Alt-Globsow, Mark Brandenburg, Germany

Sun-set at Fürstenberg with Havel river, Germany, July 6, 2023

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