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Llama Mail
This is a mail art story.  It's a bit of silliness mixed with a little fear, using archival photographs, instant photos I took, paper, tea,  an electronic recording chip, vintage images and mailing to respond to news about the pandemic from all over the world. It is part fact, and a whole lot of fiction- part of my Mentiras y Ficciones (Lies and Fictions) side habit.

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The cover and envelope of the first card in the series.
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The Front of Card 2. The Quantum Visionary Specialists advised swimming as a cure. People wanted solutions.
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Card 3. A celebrity stepped in to promote swimming as the cure.
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Card 4. Tex Masterfield, scientist, researcher (and boyfriend?) in a gas mask.
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The Back of Card 4. Not too foreboding.
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The Front of Card 5, Which was about how tea would protect you. I was actually told this by a well meaning person. If it were true, I'd have one heck of an immune system.
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Card 5 was just the beginning of complicated.
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Where the story begins, no one was worried at first...then they turned to the Quantum Visionary Specialists.
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The Contents of Card 2. Swimming seemed harmless. Some people thought this was silly.
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Inside of Card 3... and people started disappearing, including the celebrity who endorsed the water cure.
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Inside of Card 4. No one knows what is going on but there is a lot of gossip.
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Card 5 had multiple pages and included a packet of tea. Just in case.
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Card 5- Some people still looked to science, and of course, Tex Masterfield Some people were hopeful about kale. We all look to kale in troubled times.
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Card Number 6, Nurses dance in masks.
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Card 6, Everyone is getting into masks.
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More of Card 6, which unfolded in different directions- masks being the overall enthusiastic theme.
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The Back of Card 7, Including miracle solutions of all kinds.
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Card 7. A Llama named Tuesday.
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Card 7. People are dying.
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Card 7. The problem with Hamsters.
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Card 7, Unfolded completely with memorial to Deloria inside on cloth.
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Card 8. Tex Masterfield and his dog.
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More of Card 8.
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Card 8. And then we blamed bats.
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Card 8.
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Card 8.
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Card 8.
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Card 8. Coughs. Card 8 has a chip inside that when you open it, the card coughs, loudly. This is surprisingly easy to engineer.
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Card 8- Finally people resume swimming again just for fun.
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Card 9. The end of the story.
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Card 9. Sourdough bread is part of the cure.
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Card 9. The llama solution.
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Card 9. Research moves to Cuzco.
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Card 9. A secret revealed.
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Card 10. Deloria is still alive.
Brett S. Poza
threadeater@gmail.com
@theboneartist