I studied Art & Creative Writing at UWIC's Cardiff School of Art and Design with my main practice interests in mail art. There was a lot of paperwork created when making work for my final module. Everything I made to send, either to myself or to someone else, would be photocopied and accompanying this I would fill out a handmade form detailing what it was, who the recipient was, it's method of postage and at the end of each form, a date stamp and signature. Everything I received was logged with a form and, later in the process, date stamped. This change I found useful as I could then track how long it took for items that I sent to myself to return to me and start to experiment with the system.
My degree show work, entitled 'Miss-orts', consisted of a set of pillarbox-red pigeon holes, labelled and numbered, holding 125 pieces of received mail art. This sat on a desk which also held all outgoing forms, on top of the pigeon holes was outgoing mail yet to be sent and the 'inbox' and 'outbox' which I used as I was working on the piece; scattered on top of the table and on the floor surrounding it were red rubber elastic bands, partly collected but mostly donated. It was intentionally made to reflect the way in which post would be sorted in a mail room or a sorting office. I also included two (borrowed) grey Royal Mail sacks which have since been returned.
