Folded Framed Film - from Petropetal

 This very cool piece arrived in the shape of an envelope.  It was stapled and I wasn't sure if I was meant to open it.  I could tell it was for MSK.  Isn't film great? I waited.  I scanned the front and back  then I tugged.

Hiding in the fold is a swimmer pulling his or her way through the waves. Here it upside down. 

I thought of the inside as an altar, a folded picture frame, something that a lover would look at to conjure up the missing partner.  Two postives (a man and woman) are sandwiched together over a mandala.  The effect is beautiful, ornate. It gives me ideas of things to do with kids in schools too.  And I thought, 'that's great, what a fun and effective piece for MSK.'  But there was this staple and I couldn't help wondering… so I tugged and what was revealed was the word, 'AXIOPISTY: the quality that makes something believable.' What a perfect word.  Say it out loud. Petropetal had made me believe in her mail art three times,in three incarnations.  This piece definitely has AXIOPISTY!

and this is what the postives look like on their own.  

I am sticking a piece of velcro on the folding picture frame because I love the piece in that form but at the MSK show I will encourage visitors to prise it apart and investigate other guises.