Who is Madam de Sévigné?

 

Libraries are always discarding books and I am always collecting them.

Sometimes I bring them home to read.

Sometimes I bring them home because I can't bear to see them abandoned like that.

Sometimes I bring them home, tear them apart and re-use them.

I can't read French, but Madam de Sévigné's book of letter's called to me - so I brought her home, tore out her back pocket and got an idea.

While we wait...some more details

 

 Here's the plan:
I've got a bunch of library card pockets (see above) that people around the world are in the process of sticking up around their neighborhoods for you to use as a sort of trading library for tiny artsy things and such- i.e whatever fits.

I imagine the scenario to play out like this: You (or someone like you) comes upon one of these pockets stuck to a wall somewhere, you could take what's in it, replace it with something/anything that you made, and then you send a picture of your find to this blog for everyone to see.

The pocket has all the directions on "how to play" printed on it in a 

very simple (nearly raw) format.

There's a facebook group (discard) and a twitter(discardart) feed too, but for now I'm just getting the pockets out there. Can I mail you 2 or 3 to stick to a wall somewhere?

I will send you pockets with info on what to do with them.

 Don't worry, the 'directions' are entirely open to your interpretation.

I'm kind of excited about this. 

Email me your mailing address if you want to play. 

discard.art@gmail.com