Stamp collection.

Stamp Collection.

blewointment press,  1973.

“ In 1970 the "Stamp Collection" collages were created one morning without any serious artistic intent. Moreso it was to have fun with some of the images on Canadian stamps and to make a few humorous literary or political statements - to exaggerate and extend, for instance, the wings on the Kenojuak stamp, place Louis Riel captured behind an envelope window, or to make Al Purdy’s iconic R.R., 1 Ameliasburgh address bleed green onto the page etc. The method was simple: to spontaneously add felt pen streaks and smears of colour to extend the images, to obscure and crumple bits of letters and addresses - and in the case of bill bissett’s chain letter – to admit that I broke the chain so that we all lost in the pyramid of promised riches. (…)