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Comment by ejva:nsva on January 10, 2011 at 1:07pm

two! two pieces of mailart appeared in my postbox today!

 

the first from Ruud - a splendid handpainted envelope...

...brimming with mail-art ephemera

next, a paranormal piece from Eduardo Cardoso in Portugal. enamoured of his name-stamp and the scrap poem, 'ta cket of kness bisecti wrapped rded man alley and dney. The he could old of the a graffiti an's eyes wa again, thi bled over, but found n. asked'....

everything arrived in remarkably good condition for having travelled such a distance. the top of Rudd's envelope was slightly mushed, but i think i complements the texture of paint he applied there. postal serendipity!

 

thank you, Rudd and Eduardo - i award you a certificate to be seen in the mind, for being the first mailartists to officially reach me in China.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 10, 2011 at 6:03am

Found this o Torma's Blog. Since you can't read blogs in China, I posted it here. So plenty of things on its way already....!

Comment by Mao Huan (lazybunny) on January 9, 2011 at 3:24pm

Steven got a clear one!!

i am so happy to meet you guys too. you are so cool, especially your hairstyle and your hunsband's unique fashion style, he looks super cool in the old Chinese army wintercoat.

Hope more people in China can enjoy the mailart! 

Comment by ejva:nsva on January 9, 2011 at 2:10pm

i was delighted today to finally meet up with Amo (of Mail Attack) and her friend Steven. after much trading of thoughts about our current projects and the future of mail art in Shanghai, we've decided to merge some of our ideas and expand Mail Attack to include themed calls in the future. more about this later: i need to write some copy for the first theme when the free moment finds me. i also received the wonderful treat of browsing through Amo's sketchbook of fascinating and immensely skilled illustrations! whomever receives her postcards will have a lovely treasure. Amo, it was great to meet you and Steven, and i can't wait to see how Mail Attack grows and progresses!

(squishy self'sphoto!)

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 9, 2011 at 9:46am

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 8, 2011 at 7:37am

Thanks for this inside information! Love to hear more of the experiments and how the travelling of the mail-art continues.....

Comment by ejva:nsva on January 7, 2011 at 5:01am

an update on Chinese postal systems:

today i mailed three packages that were not precisely flat. one work had a small plastic child's ring attached to it, another contained the wrapper from an eyeshadow package that was re-filled with paper, and the last was a piece of stiff paper that had been folded into a triangle shape.

after being questioned about the contents and their value, i still had to fill out a customs form (i think there may have been a fee in the total, but i didn't get a breakdown) for the ring and the eyeshadow. they let the folded paper pass without customs after i demonstrated the folding with a piece of scrap paper.

in the future, i think i'll stay within the bounds of flat paper unless i'm prepared for snafu. i also wonder if the reverse will apply - if someone sends mailart with irregular shapes/attachments, will it be questioned by customs on the Chinese end (would the artist in China never receive it, or have to pay a customs tariff)?

has anyone tried sending unusual items in envelopes to China? another experiment may be in order!

Comment by Ruud Janssen on January 6, 2011 at 4:56pm

This weekend I will be sending in for Mail Attack in Shanghai to Amo....!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 6, 2011 at 3:28pm

Well, sending mail to China, and they ( non-Chinese) having friends who are Chinese artists, might just be a beginning. Look what happened on the Greek Embassy group here at IUOMA...all because my dear friend saw my mail art, organized a mail art exhibit and whawhoooo...Greek mail artists come out-of-the-woodwork, so to speak ;-) There have been for years and years Greek mail artists, but now there are MORE, and at IUOMA.

Comment by ejva:nsva on January 6, 2011 at 3:23pm

i understand. i don't mean to be terse, but these are strange suspicions to come out of the blue. i thought the issue was at rest.

to finalize the 'where-in-the-world-is-ejva' saga, i don't mind sharing with other curious persons what i wrote in response to you.

not sure what would give you the suspicion of an elaborate ruse. i never claimed to be Shanghainese. i've just lived here for the past year. i teach drama to Chinese kids.

i don't know anything about another Chinese mailartist with a website from the USA. my website is paid for by my father-in-law who lives in Atlanta, GA because i haven't figured out how to do internet billing here.

i am sorry if you had the idea i am Chinese. i have posted on IUOMA about my inability to speak Chinese, figure out my address etc, corresponded with other members about my doings as a foreigner in China, posted my photo (obviously not Chinese) on the self-portrait group. i'm also on OPENfluxus and have posted there as a foreigner in China.

 

etc. et al. 11:23 in China presently. signing out.

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