⁜ Who is Oscar Yeats?

Oscar founded Swift Post in 2001 when he joined the post art community and printed his first artistamps. From that time he has participated in numerous mail art calls and exchanges. After 20+ years of post art Oscar feels it might be time to dip his toe in the water.

Oscar Yeats's first mail art project was illegal. He mailed 12 envelopes containing self addressed postcards and stamps issued by Swift Post to members of his art community with no instructions. All 12 postcards were returned, even those that lacked official postage were postmarked and delivered by the USPS.

How to Pronounce "Yeats"

This questions comes up a lot. There are some that insist on YEEts, but Oscar assures us it's YEAts. Like this.

The Perforator

Upon further research he discovered the eternal network of mail artists and began corresponding internationally. Around the same time Oscar noticed the local print shop had a F. P. Rosback comb-type perforator in the lobby being used as a plant stand. He asked about using it, explained his project and every few weeks he would move the plants off of it and use it to perforate sheets of artistamps. In 2002 the printshop redecorated the lobby and donated the perforator to Swift Post. Having access to the perforator is crucial to the daily operations at Swift Post.

Please Mr. Postman, look and see, is there a Letter in your bag for me? The Marvelettes

Swift Post
PO Box 997
Helena, MT
59624 USA

The greatest joy to create art is to think about life to the end. Ryosuke Cohen

Gallery

Swift Post Logo

Research suggests Oscar stole the design from a long defunct 24 hour photo processing company called Fox Photo. Evidence.

Member:

International Union of Mail Artists

Mail Art Call:

Mail Art's history extends back into the furthest reaches of time. Mail Art is a medium obsessed with time. Mail Art is Ephemera AND Mail Art is the Archive.

Mail art is fixed in time, postmarked, "giving the place, date, and time of posting" AND mail art is endlessly remixed recycled.

Mail art falls apart: stamps flake off, perforations tear, envelopes wind up empty, a letter goes unanswered, addresses change. Post Artists become posthumus artists before the postman rings. Dead letters linger unreadable and unreturnable in post office vaults.

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TIME IS LIMITED

TIME IS LIMITED is an open mail art call to all participants in any medium. Works submitted will be shown publicly and a catalog of all work and participants will be returned.