Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

everything but a chair a bed a stove and. refrigerator and a few boxes
containing collages. Nothing on the walls. nothing. on the floor.. ...is
said to have observed that his paintings were three times the size of an.
envelope and was moved to cut some of them up and mail the pieces to
friends.. ...I call them moticos. It's a good word because it's both
singular and plural. and you can pronounce it how you like. However
I'm going to get a new word. soon. ... However although Johnson
seems never to have referred to the fact. it is highly likely that he chose
the word 'Moticos' (particularly in the. plural) because it is an anagram
of 'Osmotic'. The word relates very well to. the. way in which Johnson
absorbed images words ideas and life into his collages. and to the way
in which he disseminated his work through the mail.. ...Wilcock
describes Johnson's 'Moticos mailing list' notes that it included. people
and quotes him I send lists either to people I think would be. interested
or to people I think won't be interested. ...By the s Johnson had
established a mailing list of about people. ...This is evidence that
Johnson was not simply sending one of his collages. (motico) as a gift
but indulging in a complex series of pieces of puzzle. ...The
unpredictable nature of Johnson's work extended to his choice of.
correspondents and frequency of sendings. Some received 'letters' two
or three. times per week and others never or very occasionally
regardless of their. attempts at communicating with him. Equally a
'letter' could arrive from him a. long time after they had givenup hope
of getting a reply. Analysis of. mailartists' correspondence with
Johnson reveals no discernible reasons for his. decision as to who to
send to or the frequency of his sendings.. ...held New York
Correspondance Club meetings with seating plans (Plate ). another list
of names.. ...The issue of putting a name to a work of art was
subsequently explored by. mailartists and the first mailart Multiple
Name was created in the mid s by. two British mailartists Stefan
Kukowski and Adam Czarnowski who tried to. persuade other
networkers to adopt the name 'Klaos Oldanburgh'. ...Open popstar
name that could be used by mailartists wishing to assume the. identity
of a popstar. The name Monty Cantsin became associated specifically.
with Neoism and in particular with a Canadian networker Istvan
Kantor. ...Stuart Home an English networker ... that of Karen Eliot.
...'Zine' Stephen Perkins defines them as selfproduced selfdistributed.
nonprofit publications focusing on topics that are often ignored by the.
mainstream media. referring to self published cheaply produced
products with. no commercial ambitions or outlets he goes on to say
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