{"product_id":"sending-mail-requires-letting-go-of-perfection","title":"Sending Mail Inspires (Requires) Letting Go of Perfection","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo cards for two friends in two states, both written in early May, both sitting on my desk for about three weeks, both waiting for a Halloween zine I keep tinkering with before even beginning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have a quiet afternoon and these cards are staring at me, \"Hey. We should be in the mail, my good Mx. Postage Ghost.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYeah, yeah, yeah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the zine!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/7499\/1677\/files\/uber-beats.jpg?v=1779220948\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eNo! Mail now! \u003cstrong\u003eAnd!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eFollow up later!\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmediately after taking this photo, I wrapped up the glued-down bits with thick packing tape (to help the mail process easier) and headed down to the post box. They will be speeding across the system with tomorrow's pickup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a push for perfection, and if not \u003cem\u003eperfection\u003c\/em\u003e, then \u003cstrong\u003ecompletion\u003c\/strong\u003e. An air of \"it must be perfect, lest it be dissrespectful.\" An aura of \"If this is not my Everything, then it shows I am Nothing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's so pervasive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/7499\/1677\/files\/ghost-imperfect.png?v=1779222069\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy (and I emphasize, direction-only, pressure-none) goal is to make more mail. Celebrate silly and small art more often, for myself and shared with others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI'm making a zine about Halloween. I have a few people I want to send it to. I both need to find time to draw it, as well as, let go of this idea there is a deadline or expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eI come back, again and again, to old B-horror movies.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kind with production schedules measured in weeks, if not days. Budgets built in the style of \"how utterly cheap can we make this, what can we re-use or cut together?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"float: none;\" alt=\"Attack of the Crab Monster (1957)\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/7499\/1677\/files\/attack-crab.png?v=1779223108\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAttack of the Crab Monster (1957)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy romantic ideal of them is obviously through the lens of \"I explicitly love their limitations, I love them \u003cem\u003ebecause\u003c\/em\u003e and not \u003cem\u003ein spite\u003c\/em\u003e of their limitations.\" That's how I think about mail, when I let go of the impulse to seek perfection, timeliness, a schedule, an ideal, when I forgo expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are cards to \u003cem\u003efriends.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeople who are going to say, somewhere on the positive spectrum of emotion, \"Hey neat, card from atticus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am going to eat dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDay dream about old monster movies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMake more mail.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Netherworld Post Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43208741093437,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/7499\/1677\/files\/letting-go.jpg?v=1779220892","url":"https:\/\/netherworldpost.com\/en-ca\/products\/sending-mail-requires-letting-go-of-perfection","provider":"Netherworld Post Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}