#mailart

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Les courriers envoyés en mai 2026 🥨

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misadventures of ace

a handful of some ace related doodle requests i did from twitter

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No Clear Road To The Castle.

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2024 – 708

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image sur papier photographique brillant

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collée sur support bristol mat

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Actual exchange

San Francisco - Budapest

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Can Mail Art Save a Language?

Wymysorys is a language with less than 100 speakers and classified as critically endangered by UNESCO. The language is spoken in Wilamowice where a group of locals are working to preserve it.  Wilamowice is a town with about 3,000 people in Southern Poland.  

Wymysorys belongs to the Germanic Language Family. But it is not German.  It is believed its origins come from Western Europe when a mix of Flemish and German speaking settlers moved east during the 13thCentury. Wymysorys’s speakers are ethnically and culturally Polish. For centuries the speakers did not identify themselves as Germans. After World War II they were allowed to remain in Poland but the use of Wymysorys was officially discouraged.

My latest series of mail art preserves some Wymysorys vocabulary.  I have included words like brif (letter) mark (stamp), pöstkiöt (postcard) and briftröejer (mail carrier). This might be the first time the language has ever been used in mail art. But no, mail art cannot save a critically endangered language.

[penpalling]

What about extras?

I found this on Pinterest and wanted to share it to know if you also like adding little extras to your letters. ✉️ Personally, I usually don’t include much — maybe a sticker, a postcard, or a teabag, but only with people I know well. Once, someone sent me expired teabags and, to be honest, it made me a bit upset. 😅 I prefer adding extras only when I really know the person and I’m sure they’ll appreciate it — and especially when I know what they’ll appreciate. 💌🌿