Withered Flowers

Flowers by Gabriele Müller

Beautiful flowers were the subject of a call for mail art in 2020. The submission address was:

Magandang Bulaklak
Renoca Lobo Art Gallery
#84 B – Rincon Road
Valenzuela City
Philippines

Since Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers, every artist has painted flowers at some point in his or her career. Therefore, I thought the gallery in the Philippines would receive tons of cards and letters.

Maybe they did.

We don’t know because nobody ever reacted to the works that were submitted. There was no confirmation; there was no exhibition; there was only silence.

If you look up the address on Google Earth, you find a poor area with nothing that resembles a gallery.

Well, it seems that you find imposters everywhere, even in the mail art network …

(This post was updated on November 4, 2023)

Published by Marius van der Graaf

Marius considers himself a citizen of the world. He is an artist, writer, and translator. When he is not traveling, he splits his time between Indonesia and Europe.

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