new postal mail from Hal McGee

10/6/2018

13 Comments

poster of the cover of HalZine issue #11, with art by me, Rafael!

13 Comments

Per-Arne Hognert

10/6/2018 14:20:34

You did a great job with the artwork (as always)! By the way, I mail something to you this week. Hope you get it soon.

Rafael González

10/6/2018 19:14:51

Thank you very much Per-Arne! I am very happy to see you here! I will enjoy your mail, as always.

Leslie Singer

10/6/2018 20:04:11

Rafael, your poster of Hal and the video clip are great. They really convey Hal’s wonderful sense of humor and playful spirit. I’m glad that you posted one of his envelopes. They are beautiful, thoughtful works of art to be treasured.

Rafael González

10/7/2018 03:17:01

Thank you very much for your words! I completely agree with you. Hal's envelopes are works of art, I always love them

Frank

10/6/2018 23:31:21

Nice work Rafael! What I wonder(I can't make it out), are those all real American stamps or are the 'fake-ones'?

Hal

10/7/2018 02:14:31

Yes Frank, those are all real American postage stamps! You will find many stamps affixed to the packages that I have mailed to your Belgian address.

Rafael González

10/7/2018 03:21:15

Bonjour Frank! The US postal service makes very cool stamps!

Frank

10/7/2018 04:08:47

I wish, that I could hold all my little treasures in my hands already!

I don't even know of Belgium still makes stamps. I guess, I will find out soon enough!

Rafael González

10/7/2018 17:56:25

I am sure of it!

Jerry Kranitz

10/7/2018 16:23:23

I was THRILLED with Rafael’s art that accompanied my HalZine essays!

Rafael González

10/7/2018 17:54:26

And I really enjoyed reading your essays!

Evan Cantor

10/10/2018 14:04:11

I'm not a big mail-art guy--mail art for me was primarily a way to promote Walls Of Genius back in the day... that said... I keep all the mail art that Hal sends. There's no way I could discard it. A lot of thought goes into his works and as Leslie indicates, I regard them as little treasures. Some others have sent me mail-art and I feel guilty when I don't respond, but not sufficiently guilty to reciprocate. So for any of you that sent me something, something in which you put a lot of thought, and didn't hear back from me, I hope you'll accept my retroactive (and maybe future) apologies.

Rafael González

10/10/2018 14:52:41

The most important thing is freedom, in any case. I sometimes can not answer everything I want, since sometimes I could surf on a wave of correspondence, but yes, I love Mail Art is itself

Rafael González
Electronic Cottage
Assistant Editor

Failed meditation session of a compulsive
coffee drinker

In 1986, at the age of 16, I released Exenple,
my first cassette of industrial music, which I recorded with my 13-year-old brother under the name Brigada Nadie.

I was a member of the futurist multidisciplinary group Equipo Estético Étika Makinal (or 3EM), and Spanish experimental noise band I.Q.C.M.

Over the years I have created many solo and collaborative audio works.

In recent years I have turned my attention more toward visual and mail art. I like to create collages and rubber stamp art.

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La Laguna (Tenerife)
Canary Islands, Spain