Great Helps

I've got 6 letters at this time.

There are from USA, France and Canada etc.

Thank you for your helps!

Every envelopes has interesting answer that you(cooperators) did on the tea paper. 

And I need to more 14 mails to complete a puzzle. 

The Project Is Carry on

A letter reached to my Japanese home from Canada.

I'm quiet happy to hard it.
Thank you for your great help!

How to make paper

Reasons behind the project 02

I want to add a puzzle into this project as another element. 

This idea is based on my previous work. I have made a work using a puzzle. That concept was the difference of between the image of the ideal and reality.

We know what is necessary for the ideal world and how to make the world ideal.

But we can't achieve this. This is like a puzzle which we can never complete though

we can see a form of its completion. How should we achieve the thing indicated in the puzzle?

The relationship between a work and a viewer shows that we only put up an ideal without seeing

reality.

I think this is a good opportunity to embody my thinking. 

A process of making  work in this project is to make use of my situation. And also I can feel my past existence in England when I get a letter in Japan. I take a photo during my stay in England. It makes a memory which means something has finished. I want to save something not just a memory but something that has continuity. To put it simply not image but reality. So this project would play a role in realizing my existence and evidence too of me.

Reasons behind the project 01

I was collecting used tea bags during the Autumn term.

Because I thought I can use a used tea bag as a material to make a work.

And also I wanted to establish a relationship between Japan and the UK. I chose 'Tea' as a key to consider in my work. Because tea is from Asia. At the beginning I was interested in the amount of used tea bags, Because they represent British and Britain. But I reconsidered about collecting used tea bags again. And I realized that the important thing in the process was the collecting of the used tea bags. I got  those tea bags from SU bar and English school and my housemates.　

It means there is a cooperator. And also it means I ask or communicate with someone to give me used tea bags. Now I see how important all this was, before taking my next step which is that I got an idea to develop links of communication.

It is generally called mail art(postal project). 

I thought of  sending  a used tea bag as it is. But it doesn't have enough space if I want to get some message on it. So I thought of making paper from used tea bags. Making paper is quite a usual activity in Japan. And also paper is from Asia too.

 I hope I get some thing unpredictable because it is could be fun.

Items

I'm going to prepare items that you need to join this project.

I'm sorry it does not include a stamp.

About this postal project 01

This project is composed of two parts.
•paper made from used tea bags
•pieces of a puzzle

PAPER
I chose used tea bags as material and collected them when I didn't know what I wanted to do and how to do it. It made a relationship between me and England. And I would like to develop it between people as a next step. You can use it some way. Please can you use the paper in some way- you can draw on it, cut it, fold it, do whatever you want to it.

PUZZLE
The puzzle has a message 'LOVE IS ALL, WAR IS OVER IF YOU WANT IT'.
That message will be shown if I can complete it in Japan.
But I don't believe these words 99％. Therefore I don't mind it if I can't complete the puzzle.
Because that's what I thought. It's just our world and our behaviour.
However I still have a 1％ hope.

1. I would like your help to create a piece of mail-art with these things.

2. Then post the used tea bag paper, with the puzzle piece to one of your friends. 

    They need to live in another country.

3. Ask your friend to use the paper in some way too.

4. Then your friend gets them to post the paper +puzzle to me in Japan.

The diagram below should give you an overview of the progress.

This project will broaden links of communication thus.

need a cooperator to success my project

I am looking for cooperators who lives in England. 

I would like to post some information about this project in university and a library. 

Please contact me if you interested in this.