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Mail art/collage sent to E.M. Plunkett (Edward Plunkett, mail artist and a member of the New York Correspondence School), postmarked ‘London June 11 1976’.
9x14cm. The collage features a handwritten Manson reference, “Helter Skelter’s” [sic], its letters outlined in black ink and filled in using a red felt tip pen, with additional sections of green felt tip and two COUM stamped slogans: ‘Fear’ and ‘Paranoia’ (P-Orridge formed a pseudo-organisation called the Paranoia Club after his trial at Highbury Magistrates Court in April 1976).
A photo of a woman’s smiling face, clipped from a colour magazine, is attached to the right edge, with the entire image bisected by two black lines forming a large cross.
The verso has Ed Plunkett’s address at 303 East 76th Street, NYC, written out by P-Orridge in pink felt tip, and additional COUM stamps, including ‘Don’t Take It Too Art’.
Plunkett coined the name ‘New York Correspondence School’ in 1962.
Price:
£750.00
