Artist trading cards
If you ever collected baseball cards or Pokemon® cards, then you have a very good idea what this mail art looks like. It is relatively new art form dating from 1996. They are small ( 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch) miniature works of art which can be produced as an original or as very limited editions. On the back of the card is usually the signature, the date and the number (if the card is part of an edition). You can create, trade and collect these little works of art"with artists from around the world. They can be made using all techniques and materials like paint, collages, photographs, rubber stamp, assemblages, etc. The only rule is that they are supposed to be the same size so that they can fit into the plastic protective sheets used to store trading cards.
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