Mail art by Gerda Osteneck (Mangawhai Heads, New Zealand
& Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Gerda Osteneck is a Canadian artist, book artist & visual poet who is active in the Eternal Network & thus likely familiar to the Asemic Front audience. Indeed, she is yet another consistent contributor to this ongoing project.
Earlier this year, Gerda Osteneck made an exciting journey to New Zealand. She used the trip as an opportunity to make new art & distribute it through the postal system. Mail art is an ideal medium to share creativity while travelling; it can function as a serial narrative & express immediacy. (I've written about travel or "on the road" mail art in the past). This large postcard size work is a result of her art-journalism. As Gerda's kind note on the reverse side explains, this piece was composed in Mangawhai Heads.
Gerda is an artist interested in process & was warmly received by Diane Keys' Trashpo contingent for her use of found materials. These talents conspire to create this amazing study of textual decomposition above & fits well into my theory of deconstructive asemics.
Gerda explains in the note that she makes paper & has certainly applied insights from this unique knowledge of material culture into a work that documents a process of textual change on the physical page that is usually ignored. The piece certainly adopts the Gutai stance - so prevalent in mail art - that explores the process of decay & decomposition.
- De Villo Sloan
By Gerda Osteneck (detail study)
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