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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · 22d

Written in 1933; published in 1934 by Scribners (New York) republished in 1957 by McClelland & Stewart (Toronto). NCL series cover design and illustration: Frank Newfeld. Collage source image: Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1506.

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · 22d

( 10-12-25 ) The first intervention of the vintage New Canadian Library paperback series, NCL 2, by Morley Callaghan.
#dpxx #newwork #art #canlit #design #Canada #photomontage

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · 26d

( 10-08-25 ) Underfoot
#autumnrelease
#changeiseverconstant
#anotherjourney

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · 26d

Graphic design is a life preserver for so much talent

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 27

( 09-27-25 ) Land Water Sky

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 23

I lay the blame on Paris. Or the Parisians. Take your pick.

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 22

( 09-21-25 ) The most positive act of ‘cancellation’ is performed locally when mail is accepted with correct postage, and ready to enter the worldwide postal system.
#singleobject-individualtreatment
#collect-sort-deliver
#regularity-speed-security

#dpxx #inprocess #CanadaPost #mailart #postage

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 22

#TwoTwelve #mentor

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 22

( 09-21-25 ) A few of the 5x7s that draw on the idea of “half & half not” and mailed to more than 220 people in celebration of the Equinox. Half it is. Big love to all mail carriers everywhere.
#dpxx #5x7s #newwork #halftime #solstitials #artsky #designsky #mailart #allmyrelations

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 15

( 9-15-25 ) All the Fall Equinox cards are drawn, enveloped, addressed, and being sent out. EU and global first, then North America, then local. Kudos to postal workers everywhere! Heroes all.
#dpxx #5x7 #newwork #solstitials #mailart #artsky #designsky #inprocess #CanadaPost

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 11

( in process ) All 220 of the 5x7s are ready for personalizing and numbering. The theme of this edition is somewhat philosophical—but aren’t they always—and the drawings evolved in the course of four days. Next up, the mailings.
#dpxx #5x7 #newwork #solstitials #mailart #artsky #artonpaper

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 8

Vogue Italia x DPXX

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 8

Vogue Italia x DPXX

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 8

Vogue Italia x DPXx

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 8

( materials ) Elements for making the 5x7” artworks honoring the Fall Equinox. 220 individual drawings in total, each unique, on brown or white stock. After signing & addressing, these will be entrusted to Canada Post.
#dpxx #inprocess #solstitials #artsky #designsky #mailart

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Sep 2

Canadian

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Aug 17

( 06-28-25 ) “Folkestone Corps de Ballet”. Video, silent version, 30-seconds, loop. Unsolicited work for the Clay+Flint themed Fringe programme of UK’s 2025 Folkestone Triennial.
#dpxx #newwork #Folkestone #Triennial #Kent #artsky #designsky

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thank you Yoko for being the light you are.

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Jul 9

( 7-7-2025 ) Aesthetic Medicine, a series of 12 postcards, collages created while traveling in the UK, and mailed to the twelve people who hosted me on my Grand Tour.
#dpxx #newwork #postcards #mailart #artistsofbluesky #designersofbluesky #collage #unionjack

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Jun 11

( release ) The summer solstice mailing will drop in the next few days. 220 unique DIN A6 cards. Love in difficult times! Kudos to my friends in Berlin who gave me space and time to prepare them.
#dpxx #newwork #inprocess #solstitials #artsky #designsky #mailart

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · Jun 11

( 1993 ) Were all these memories real or fantasy? / Tutti questi ricordi erano reali o frutto della fantasia?
#dpxx #oldmail #collage #artsky #designsky #socialconnection #mailart #thegaze #postcards

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · May 24

Alfons Mucha

dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · May 23

( 05-22-25 ) From a series, this one made by tearing Vogue Italia magazine, May 2025 issue N. 896.
#dpxx #newwork #artsky #designsky #photomontage #magazines #poeticlicense #popularsemiotics
Front cover; a two-page spread, now without words or brand marks

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · May 20

( 1974 ) An appreciation of two enduring faces: that of Mona Lisa and Buster Keaton. Created as cutouts with photo-mechanical transfer papers (PMTs).
#dpxx #earlywork #artsky #artistsofbluesky #thegaze #photocollage #monalisa #busterkeaton

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dpxx_art @david94117.bsky.social · May 12

( 5-12-25 ) Milano. Cesto di fiori, Jan Brueghel x DPXX. From a series of postcard interventions done while traveling.
#dpxx #newwork #artsky #artistsofbluesky #photocollage #designsky #grandtour

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