Kelly Mark: Boomerang

exhibition history> 2007 Art Metropole (Toronto ON); 2008 MSVU Gallery (Halifax NS);

Boomerang - 2000 August 26, 1998 to May 1, 2000 Mail art project. 114 envelopes, dated and stamped. (private collection) Living in a store front in Hamilton, Ontario my letterslot on my front door happened to be only inches away from a city post box. The word boomerang was typed onto a sheet of 8 1/2 x 10 standard white paper. And was repeatedly mailed back and forth to me for a period of approximatley 2 years. Every time the boomerang came back to me I would open the letter, take the page out, and put it into a new envelope and mail it back to myself again. It would usually take about a week for the letter to travel what was conceptually only a matter of inches. The project ended when the Post Office eventually lost this letter and the boomerang never came back. All that is left of this project is the accumulated empty envelopes.