tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3821688310621198332024-03-12T19:08:19.212-07:00WELCOME TO CASCADIA ARTPOSTJack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-88410755383315685802014-08-27T18:29:00.000-07:002014-08-27T18:29:14.155-07:00Cascadian Landscapes
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To honor the beauty of the Cascadian
bioregion, Cascadia Artpost has created the first three artistamps in a new
series called "Cascadian Landscapes."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mount Rainier, the highest volcanic peak of the Cascade mountain range at
14,410 feet above sea level. This image is an original drawing based on a
photograph posted on the current U.S. National Park Service website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The second artistamp features a view
of Budd Inlet and the Port of Olympia, Washington, with an abandoned railroad
causeway in the foreground. This view is looking northeastward from Olympia's
Fourth Avenue Bridge. The image is a drawing based on an original photo taken
in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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image on the third artistamp. The image was created from a posterized photo
taken at sunset and looking southward toward the state capitol building and the
mouth of the Deschutes River, which flows into Capitol Lake, which in turn
flows into Budd Inlet.</span></span></div>
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Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-52918948665970575432014-08-27T18:25:00.000-07:002014-08-27T18:25:27.007-07:00Michael Bidner, Artistamp Creator (1944-1989)
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a Cascadia Artpost was still an idea germinating in the head of its creator,
the face-on black image on an orange postoid simply labeled
"Artistamp" with an underlined Greek <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gamma </i>caught my eye as I discovered what Chuck Welch aka The
Crackerjack Kid called The Eternal Network. Creating and exchanging faux
postage stamps and mail art soon became an important activity in my life. By
that time, a decade had passed since the sad passing of Michael Bidner, the
originator of the term "artistamp." But Bidner remained one of those
personages, like the late Ray Johnson, that I made note of as I learned more
and more about the origins of artistamps and what Michael Crane termed
"correspondence art."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This year marks the 70th anniversary
of Bidner's birth. Cascadia Artpost honors the memory of Michael Bidner with
the issue of fifteen artistamps that reproduce designs from a sheet of sixteen
that Bidner titled his "Mail Art Masterpiece." Bidner created the
sheet to publicize his 1984 Artistampex, the first international exposition
focused on artistamps and curated by Bidner. Artistampex was also significant
for the opportunity it presented for mail artists to meet face to face. Long
time networkers Harley and The Crackerjack Kid have shared with us some of
their memories about this event and their relationships with Bidner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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worldwide catalog of artistamps at the time of his death. His collection of
10,000 artistamps was bequeathed to the art research center Artpool in
Budapest, Hungary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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kindly sent Cascadia Artpost an original cover sent out by Bidner to publicize
Artistampex, also illustrated with the Cascadia Artpost commemoratives.</span></span></span></div>
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Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-91470259016612867362014-07-30T17:33:00.000-07:002014-07-30T17:35:24.320-07:00Fluxus Identity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A series of
self-photos taken in June 2014 are the basis for a sheet of 28 artistamps
simply titled "FluXus Identity," exploring different ways of seeing
and being seen.</span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-68961779849437410262014-07-30T17:30:00.002-07:002014-07-30T17:30:41.733-07:00Artist Self-Portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We met our dear mail art friend buZ
blurr for the first time in person at the Ex Postal Facto (XPF) exposition held
in San Francisco in February 2014. From photographs taken of several of the
participants, buZ later produced a set of unique images on artistamps of
various artists who were present at XPF, and sent us a copy of the set. We took
buZ's image of yours truly, resized and cropped it, and released it as a
Cascadia Artpost artistamp. Thank you, buZ, for creating this and the other
likenesses, reminding us of the fond memories and fun we all had at XPF.</span></span></div>
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ago while still living in the Ballard neighborhood of the city of Seattle,
Washington, we would take five-mile walks in the morning three or four times a
week. Our walking path was a big oval, northward through a residential
neighborhood called Loyal Heights, westward down several flights of stairs and
walkways to a public beachfront park at Shilshole along Elliot Bay, then
southward along the urban Burke-Gilman trail, across a railroad spur track and
over a railroad bridge back to our residence. While walking the first segment
through Loyal Heights, I passed a house where one of the residents staged small
action figures in changing scenes along the top of a retaining wall.</span></div>
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fascinated in the miniature dramas I saw and decided to order some miniature
people of my own, which I called "peeps." These small figures were
HO- and O-gauge scales intended for model railroad layouts. I would add several
of my peeps to the settings on the retaining wall. Sometimes they would stay in
the same place for days, but sometimes I would walk by to find my peeps in
different positions, and other times my peeps simply disappeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I began to
set one or more peeps in different locations along the urban trail portion of
my walking route, where I found low retaining walls along the trail. Later I
documented the location of my peeps with photos. Quickly I discovered that my
peeps would have longer lifespan if I placed them in less obvious locations
along the busy trail, otherwise they would be gone after a day or two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After moving
to Olympia, I wondered whether any of my peeps had survived in the urban
jungle. One year later, on a trip to Seattle, I decided to make a diversion and
drive to the trail to see if any of the peeps were still in place. Of the four
locations I checked, I found one peep still sitting on his tiny bench at the
spot where I had originally placed him. I decided to bring him back to Olympia
with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So now the
peeps are the subject of a series of artistamps. I selected the best photos and
highlighted the settings of the peeps by using a graphic technique called a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vignette</i> to crop their photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I am considering
some new future projects that will feature peeps. Photographing peeps in urban settings
is not a new idea - for example, see the various books published by the street artist
Slinkatchu. The peeps exert an emotional force on me that is not surprising. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The feeling of being ignored and
overlooked, of feeling small, is a universal one," says Slinkachu.
"It is as easy for us to fall through cracks in the pavement in a big city
as it is for the little people." Stay tuned for more peep adventures that become
reports to the Eternal Network.</span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-34853946435203293172014-07-30T16:52:00.002-07:002014-07-30T16:52:24.686-07:00Commodity Civilization II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a
followup to the American Values artistamps created last year, we created a
second collage out of newspaper advertisements and magazine clippings with the
title "Commodity Civilization II." So much of American life is a
preoccupation with acquiring material goods, and of course advertising images
and messages are omnipresent in all media as constant accompaniment. The
American cultural historian Jackson Lears has coined the term "commodity
civilization" to described what has been called the American Way of Life.
Can we imagine another future where human relationships rather than commodity
acquisition might be valued more highly?</span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-7494944877105233572014-07-30T16:49:00.002-07:002014-07-30T16:49:10.134-07:00Spurned by the Panopticon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Eternal Network extends even to
prison. However, mail restrictions forbid certain items used in mail art
correspondence that we outside the world of panopticons take for granted. We
discovered that rubber stamps are one of those forbidden categories. When
Cascadia Artpost attempted several times to mail several unmounted rubber
stamps to correspondent Colin Scholl, the envelope came back to us with a
sticker and hand-written message. We decided to create a postcard with a photo
of the returned envelope that we titled "Spurned by the Panopticon."
On the front of the postcard is a "Fluxus Prison" artistamp designed
by Colin that was printed on perforated stock by Cascadia Artpost. Perhaps
someday you will find mail franked with one of these artistamps or another
inscribed "CS MAIL" delivered direct from the panopticon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the Cascadia region of North
America, the Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year, when the sun
does not set until 9:30 p.m. and twilight lasts until 10:30-11:00 p.m. What
better way to mark this milestone than with a set of Summer Flower artistamps.
With two exceptions noted below, photographs of flowers grown in personal
gardens over several seasons in the Seattle area were used to create fourteen
different artistamps. Several artistamps along with a small envelope of
wildflower seeds were mailed in a packet to correspondents on 2 June 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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on the stamp sheet (listed from left to right, top row first):<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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succulent with brilliant, shining purple flowers, striking in a patio pot.
Likes full sun. Blooming period: July-August.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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leaves with white blooms. Prefers part-shade and moist soil. Blooming period:
Spring to fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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compact plant with small green leaves. Drought tolerant in full sun to partial
shade. Blooming period: Late spring to summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Delphinium 'Komestead':</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Common name: Larkspur. Luminescent
bluish flowers and long green stalks. Prune to ground after first bloom to get
a second bloom in late summer. Grows in full sun to partial shade. Blooming
period: Summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Geranium 'Jericho':</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Miniature 6 to 8 inch tall bushy
growth with white edged green leaves with irregular green and pink centers, and
beautiful salmon-pink flowers. Slow-growing in full sun to partial shade.
Blooming period: Summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are attractive to hummingbirds. Grows in full sun to partial shade. Blooming
period: Summer to early fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Echinacea 'Harvest Moon':</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Yellow-orange flowering perennial
that prefers full sun. Blooming period: Summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost':</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Heart-shaped frosty leaves with
green borders and narrow green veins have a showy appearance year-round and is
a vigorous grower. Flower stalks have small blue flowers. Grows in full sun to
partial shade. Blooming period: Late spring to August, if dead blooms are
pruned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this perennial grows to 20 inches tall in full sun to partial shade. Blooming
time: Late spring to first frost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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papery pink blossoms with carmine rays and yellow center. Likes sandy soil and
full sun and tends to self-seed for the next season. Blooming time: Late spring
to early summer. [Note: This was one of two flowers not from a personal garden;
this specimen was photographed next to a fence in an industrial area in south
Seattle, Washington state, USA.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rosette-forming purple-carmine flowers on mealy white stems with lance-toothed
green foliage, growing up to 2.5 feet tall. Prefers moist soil. and partial
shade. Blooming period: Summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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blue flowers growing 1-2 feet tall. Blooms profusely in full sun to partial
shade and is drought-tolerant. Blooming period: May-June. [Note: This is the
other flower not from a personal garden; this specimen was photographed along
the Burke-Gilman urban trail in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington
state, USA.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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flowers. Prefers moist soil with fresh compost in spring in full sun. Blooming
period: Late spring to early fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lavender daisies with chartreuse centers grow on gray-green evergreen foliage.
Cold hardy and continuously blooming if dead blooms are pruned. Grows in full
sun to partial shade. Blooming period: Spring to fall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-36541012390631764162014-07-30T16:30:00.003-07:002014-07-30T16:30:51.804-07:00By Overnight Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Summer Solstice, we observed a stormy sky with a full moon shining through
moving clouds. From our apartment balcony, we held our camera and took multiple
shots. Later, when we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were reviewing our
photographic catalog for potential mail art subjects, the image of the Summer
Solstice Moon and brooding clouds seemed perfectly suited for the Cascadia
Artpost "By Overnight Post" artistamp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reductions by the United States Postal Service, the only overnight mail service
available to us here in Olympia, Washington U.S.A. is for mail traveling to the
Seattle metropolitan area, 70 miles north, and to correspondents such as Test
Tower in Chehalis, about 25 miles to the south.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-67800078109170696922014-07-30T16:28:00.000-07:002014-07-30T16:28:14.444-07:00The Walnut Tree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the
occasion of the Ben Bir Ceviz Ağaciyim Mail Art Exhibition held in Istanbul,
Turkey in Spring 2014, Cascadia Artpost created a miniature artistamp sheet on
the exhibition theme "Yes, Walnut Tree is watching us," a line taken
from a poem by Nazim Hikmet. The image selected for the artistamp is a photo of
a moss and lichen-covered wooden railing seen at the Nisqually National
Wildlife Refuge, located near Cascadia Artpost's home in Olympia, Washington. Thank
you to Meral Ağar for inviting us to participate.</span></div>
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<br />Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-37290588196947781692014-07-30T16:21:00.002-07:002014-07-30T16:53:00.531-07:00Spring Clouds<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sometimes when you go outside, you look up and the sky catches your attention with some unusual cloud formations. We saw these cloud ridges and took some quick pictures. The time was a sunny January morning, but these clouds seemed to be harbingers of spring with their lively movement across the sky. Therefore, we call the four artistamps our spring cloud set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">These artistamps were reproduced on an inkjet printer rather than our usual laserjet machine. We happened to have a partial box of glossy coated perforated paper stock, but when we tried to print one of the glossy sheets with the laserjet, the paper jammed. The inkjet printer handled the glossy paper just fine. Although the images were less sharp, we found we liked the effect of the ink bubbling on the sheet.</span><br />
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Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-8163138049813698062013-12-23T14:35:00.003-08:002013-12-23T14:35:57.159-08:00NEW YEAR 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To commemorate the New Year, Cascadia
Artpost created this multicolor artistamp, based on an out of focus photo of an
outdoor holiday light display. The artistamp was offset printed as an
International Art Post edition in December 2013 by Banana Productions in
Roberts Creek, British Columbia CANADA. For more information about
International Art Post editions or to subscribe to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Banana Rag </i>newsletter, contact Anna Banana at a_banana@uniserve.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-2938135947206994442013-12-23T14:33:00.000-08:002013-12-23T14:33:39.913-08:00NO MÁS DICTATURAS
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last summer, Uruguayan mail artist
Clemente Padin issued a mail call (deadline: November 30, 2013) for art
commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the anti-democratic coup d'état that
installed a military government in Uruguay. This government imprisoned Padin
for several years in retaliation for Padin's mail art criticizing the
government and its American supporters. Cascadia Artpost recognizes this
anniversary and salutes the art of Clemente Padin through the issuance of a
"No Más Dictaduras" ("No More Dictatorship") artistamp and
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Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-73613290316678795142013-12-23T14:20:00.001-08:002013-12-23T14:20:15.960-08:00CLOUDS
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Twenty-five horizontal and
twenty-five vertical photos taken from a 2012 flight from Amsterdam to Seattle
comprise the fifty artistamps we call our Cloud series. The images captured
from above were diverse: reflections off the waters of the North Sea, diverse
and ever changing cloud formations, occasional reflections of the sun off a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cloud deck, and even two instances of a
rainbow refraction effect. Some of the images admittedly are not clouds, namely
the vistas of mountains and flowing glaciers of Greenland that were too fascinating
to pass up. All of the photos were taken with an I-Phone camera from a window
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Jack Lattemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14163119379061643047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382168831062119833.post-80108012862402381312013-12-23T14:17:00.001-08:002013-12-23T14:17:10.732-08:00AMERICAN VALUES
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The recurring bombardment of
advertising paper in the form of inserts, flyers, and catalogs accompanying the
local daily newspaper (the volume of which frequently exceeded the number of
actual "news" pages) was the basis for a Cascadia Artpost collage
created in August 2013 that we called "Commodity Civilization." Stock
advertising slogans, the always smiling faces of consumer individuals and
families, and a few pictures cut from news magazines were excised out of their
context and juxtaposed to portray the ahistoric reality that immerses
Americans. The cultural historian J. Jackson Lears frequently uses the term
"community civilization" in his history of American advertising, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fables of Abundance, A Cultural History of
Advertising in America</i> (New York: Basic Books, 1994) to describe an
American Way of Life organized around the consumption of material goods. He
calls national advertising "the quintessential institution of the
developing image empire" where "Factual accuracy was less important
than making the truth sound true." Lears develops the context more fully
in his most recent book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rebirth of a
Nation, The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 </i>(New York: Harper
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The roots of commodity civilization
go back to the beginnings of U.S. history on the North American continent. American
historian Walter McDougall identifies hustling as the defining characteristic
of Americans. In his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedom Just
Around the Corner, A New American History 1585-1828, </i>McDougall traces the
expression of individualism in multiple areas of American life and Americans'
penchant to hustle from the early days of the American colonies to the first
decades of the United States. McDougall clearly states he is not picking on
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"To suggest Americans are, among other things, prone to
be hustlers is not to accord them a nature different or worse than other human
beings. It is simply to acknowledge American have enjoyed more opportunity to
pursue their ambitions, by foul means or fair, than any other people in
history. In Europe and elsewhere the privilege of manipulating the system to
one's advantage was either reserved to elites or severely constrained: the wily
peasant could not go far. In America, by contrast, all white males enjoyed full
freedom to hustle, white women had their own tricks, and even enslaved Africans
(we now know) played the system as best they could. No wonder American English
is uniquely endowed with [several hundred] words connoting a swindle ...."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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goes one step further in his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why America
Failed, The Roots of Imperial Decline</i> (New York: John Wiley & Sons,
2012; paperback edition to appear under another publisher in spring 2014) to
describe how American materialism and the pursuit of personal gain without
regard for the effects on others are now the instruments for American decline
in the 21st century. The rise of the financial sector and corporate domination
of politics, along with the financial crisis of 2008-2009 were not aberrations,
contends Berman, but the logical outcomes of a hustler culture incapable of
changing direction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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defining American characteristic and the relentless drive of commodity civilization
are deserving subjects for artistamps, hence the Cascadia Artpost series
American Values. The large vertical format "Hustling" stamp
superimposes the image of a hand grasping U.S. dollars above a rolling field of
red stripes suggesting the U.S. flag. In the second stamp, simply titled
"More", an empty grasping hand emerges out of the stars and stripes
to represent the never satisfied consumer, or what the historian Lears says is
"The reduction of the moral to the financial..." What more can one
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