Pages from the catalog
Long Life to the Arts – Long Life to the Earth: 1985 International Ecology Mail Art Project. Esposizione internazionale di arte postale
Il politecnico, Varese, 1985, 128 p. (ed. by Roberto Maria Mascheroni)

**Rhizome** (1985) — a mail art work by Shimamoto, created for the "Long Life to Mail Art" project. The piece draws on the philosophical concept of the *rhizome* — a non-hierarchical, decentralized network of growth without a single origin or endpoint, as theorized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ([see: Rhizome (philosophy)]). As a distributed, ever-expanding network of exchange among artists across borders, mail art itself can be seen as a rhizomatic practice.