A Book for Marie
Cheryl
Penn(South Africa)/Marie Wintzer (Japan)
Unique Book made from the Mail Art of Marie
Wintzer from paper collected and posted from Japan. Marie has managed through her
correspondence and photographs to create quite a surreal vision of Japan - it
even has a place called “booktown”. The
book is handmade from paper garnered from various shops and markets in Japan,
and using it was - well, difficult. But
what was the point if it just lay in a drawer? I created sewn pockets into
which her Mail Art is inserted. Some
pieces are cryptic, some are fun, some tell stories. There are postcards, notes, letters,
drawings, small books, and photographs only Marie could have taken. Our correspondence goes back to 2010 - that’s
many Tokyo Moons ago. Cherry Blossom is
travelling another path now, but the places this particular fork in her journey
took me are very precious.
