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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.

( 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

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

Graphic design is a life preserver for so much talent

( 09-27-25 ) Land Water Sky

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

( 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

#TwoTwelve #mentor

( 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

( 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

( 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

Vogue Italia x DPXX

Vogue Italia x DPXX

Vogue Italia x DPXx

( 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

Canadian

( 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

Thank you Yoko for being the light you are.

( 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

( 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

( 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

Alfons Mucha

( 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

( 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

( 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

Happy 99th birthday, Sir David!

( 4-28-25 ) Rome. A postcard photo-collage with the eyes of Sir David Attenborough. From an ongoing series made while traveling.
#dpxx #newwork #artsky #artistsofbsky #photocollage #wisdomspeaks #Rome

Apparently, moderation@bsky.app think a public sculpture featured in the gardens of the Royal Palace in Caserta is “adult content”, because nudity? Seriously?
#fixyourAI #let-art-be-art

( 04-24-25 ) Caserta, Italy. From an ongoing series of postcard interventions made while traveling. The Bath of Venus, 1762 by Tommaso Solari.
#dpxx #newwork #artsky #photocollage #artistsofinstagram #artonpaper

( 04-21-25 ) Carovigno. From an ongoing series of postcard interventions made while traveling.
#dpxx #newwork #artsky #photocollage #artistsofinstagram #artonpaper