Earlier this month I was delighted to present Reading the Migration Library and other publications of Light Factory Publications at Volume8 MTL L’Art et Le Livre / Art and The Book in Montréal. The events offered plenty of opportunities to exchange …
RML Mail Art
Hometown studies in abstraction, light, and letter-sizes
In July, Toronto-based artist Francisco Fernando Granados was in Vancouver for one of his hometown visits. This time he brought along a stack of colourful miniature artist books which he was gifting to the friends he met, and slipping into local …
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Zine Swap
Publications from all three phases of the Reading the Migration Library were popular at last week’s Zine Swap, hosted by the students of the summer course, “Independent Publishing and the Democratic Multiple” (instructed by Jean Chisholm with the …
Publications from Belgium
It is always delightful to receive publications by the poet-nymph Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). As I wrote in a previous post, Liza Leyla’s mailed publications are keeping the project Renegade Library and the memory of Guido Vermeulen alive. In the …
Exchanging Prompts
Let’s say that 2025 is the year of creative prompts, over here at RML HQ. It is now six months into Everyday Things, a year-long series of creative provocations in mail art by Cyndy Chwelos. Just before the start of the year, Chwelos invited a …