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June 20, 2013 by tomdalzell

Mail Boxes #2 – Arty Quirk

Mr. Postman, is there a letter in your bag for me?  We have already seen mail boxes painted and built to depict animals.  The mail boxes shown in this album are artistic without, mostly, being representational.  Just plain arty.   What do I mean?  Well –

1415 Arch

1415 Arch

Or

1937 Cedar

1937 Cedar

1937 Cedar

1937 Cedar

1937 Cedar

1937 Cedar

Or this:

1833 Parker

1833 Parker

1833 Parker

1833 Parker

Or art through old cameras:

2248 Summer

2248 Summer

2248 Summer

2248 Summer

2248 Summer

2248 Summer

Cameras!  They remind, don’t they, of the cell phone gate in Miscellaneous #1?

2231 Ashby

2231 Ashby

Back away from technology and appliances, several more:

2221 California

2221 California

2305 Sacramento

2305 Sacramento

And this one, where a few shards take us from mail-box-as-house (a coming attraction in the mail box department) to arty quirk:

14 Rock

14 Rock

There’s a lot of quirk popping here, more than just a great mailbox:

1208 Peralta

1208 Peralta

2221A 9th

2221A 9th

And here, gloriously, a Lega mail box.  Using standard quantification for quality of picture measured against degree of quirk, this is one of the lowest performing photos that I have.  On my list to re-shoot.  But you can get an idea:

1220 Channing

1220 Channing

And finally a piece of representational mailbox art.  A salute to the VW microbus, hippie van of ages past:

851 The Alameda

851 The Alameda

What a bunch of mailboxes, no?  My desk-side seemingly inanimate friend wants one.  I will help him but I won’t do it for him.

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