Dear Martha, thank You for your appreciation of my collage and for publishing it in the group. I am very pleased!
I must say that I love the winter landscape that is placed on the postage stamp. I recognize the Moscow of my boyhood. I went to school in the half-light, it was getting light, I could see the dome of the Church... bare tree... a string of workers ... snow ... it was just like that. Today, the city has changed, it has been greatly modernized, it has become less proletarian and more cramped.
Most importantly, there is a sky over Moscow that makes me think about flying. I my collages talk about flying into the sky. Thank You, dear Martha.
Dear Martha, I wish You a speedy recovery! Just today, I saw a message about an injury that happened to you. I sympathize with You and wish You healing.
Thanks Martha, I don't want to stop making collages in any way. I just wanted to take fewer photos of mail and spend less time on the Internet. Life is changing, and I will have to learn to save time, become more frugal. All this in order to have more time to work at the artist's Desk!
I must say that Google Translate works perfectly! He's smart!
Hello, Martha. I would like to see Your online blog. I believe Your blog contains a large collection of correspondence that you have received in recent years.
In Moscow, it would be impossible to walk around with works of art attached to a bag - it's raining! The rain washes away the dust, but it doesn't wash away our fears; people around us are afraid of the virus, which returns like the biblical locust. In this situation, I need to take care of my parents ' health and not forget about my work... I wish you a successful October vacation, when you can not care about the received mail or blog, but only contemplate the space. It's as if everything is gone, and there is only the joy of being.
Hi Martha, sorry you have trouble here at ning, hope the problems are resolved soon. Your beautiful "Greek GOLD" arrived in a fun foldilope and soon I hope something will come for your Trolley Gallery :-)
I have to wear the steel back brace until Nov. 30, but doing fine, no pain, no spams, and I can make mail art, and blog :-) No need to go out of the house, as of today we are back in lockdown...spike in Covid cases in Greece now as well. And we are very far away from the Greek island of Samos and the coast of Turkey, so we did not feel the earthquake. It is very hard for all those in that area, and with the virus raging, too. So sad.
Thank you for your inspiring comment! I have a whole series of self portraits, using reflective surfaces. I prefer the indirectness over in your face selfies and the added bonus of the reflected visuals.
Somehow, somewhere! If you cut it in half - lengthwise - and stick them together, it will be Janus! You can submit it as a "self-portrait of another two".
Ah, thanks, Martha, but no. I washed my holey love sock and got my delightful technician to sew it up all lovely so that I could mail it to that island faraway in the South Atlantic Ocean. And, as I am the girl who walks with a hole in her shoe, these socks will be a stretch too cold for me.
Yes - but my hand is not of much help. I still can't do anything other than type lots of words in the main section (not in messages). It's been like this since 31 Jan.
I have an iPad with the Apple Pencil but it doesn't improve my drawing ability by any stretch of the imagination. Just so I don't deceive you I am Superhero / Moan Lisa and we have exchanged mail several times many years ago.
My specialty is the female nude using textures garnered from the web in digital collage. I have created several thousand such collages but I no longer share them to the community at large due to a number of reasons most notably backlash over the usage of certain copyright sticklers.
I'm in school for information security with a minor in graphic design so I know a little bit of my way around the Adobe suite. Right now we are using Dreamweaver to code websites in HTML and CSS.
I took up drawing specifically because I am terrible at it and thought it most represented the realm of *xus art-amusement despite Mark Bloch's insistence that art-amusement isn't painting or drawing.
thank you for the art mail. I spent a long time trying to figure out how this beautiful cat was made, sleeping peacefully on the terrace ... Is it a seal, an engraving?
Thank you for your thoughts on time and for Banana Day!
I've been conversing a lot with some old mail art friends on Facebook, trying to keep out of public groups after a bit of correspondence art hazing from DVS that sent me into a mental illness spiral. We've been talking about some of my old projects in private and so I'm trying to revisit a few of the (many) projects which people found most fun. I don't know if you're on Facebook but I started a revisitation of a project that used to be "Moan Lisa's Art Akademie," which has daily email art prompts and people can post their work together in the Facebook group and comment on, and encourage each other's stuff. The project is linked from artakademie.org, I dropped the "Moan Lisa" at Thomas Brown's suggestion.
Another project I'm bringing back is from my (in my opinion) most popular call for art, zombies. The original was inspired by my ex-wife's university professor who taught them a class on zombies, and I think it is one of the most accessible calls I ever made as far as getting the general public's interest in mail art to be realized. I think zombies are easy for the masses to relate to, whereas a lot of my calls have been more mail-artist-specific and not so easy for normal people to understand like asemic writing.
Anyways, zombiemailart.com links to a new Facebook group and I'll also be posting a group here in IUOMA for zombies as soon as I finish typing this comment :)
This cat is beautiful, especially because there is a lot of white on the sheet and the outline is not filled in with anything. As my teacher used to say: "a lot of white is a lot of air"!
I am inspired by the idea of combining the visual with poetry.
You're welcome, Martha - and I am happy it arrived in one piece. I did not know if it was maybe waaaay to risky to send it without envelope so I am surprised in a positive way everything is still in place.
Thank you Katerina for posting the tiger. Now I shall post here something I have been working on all afternoon. I joined the group Embasy of Ukraine too.
So, now I know that letters from Moscow to the UK are being delivered! This is amazing, the postal service, as it promised, has shown wonders of ingenuity. Consequently, my postal connection to the outside world is not severed.
Johannes Groß
Your unicorn arrived today! Thank you so much, Martha!
Jun 5, 2020
mariano filippetta
thanks
Jun 15, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha, thank You for your appreciation of my collage and for publishing it in the group. I am very pleased!
I must say that I love the winter landscape that is placed on the postage stamp. I recognize the Moscow of my boyhood. I went to school in the half-light, it was getting light, I could see the dome of the Church... bare tree... a string of workers ... snow ... it was just like that. Today, the city has changed, it has been greatly modernized, it has become less proletarian and more cramped.
Most importantly, there is a sky over Moscow that makes me think about flying. I my collages talk about flying into the sky. Thank You, dear Martha.
Aug 8, 2020
Motherbrando
thank you for the Mail! love the STG!
Aug 25, 2020
marlies wilding
thank you, martha ... now to conjure up a smile and/or a smirk!
Aug 27, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha, I wish You a speedy recovery! Just today, I saw a message about an injury that happened to you. I sympathize with You and wish You healing.
Sep 3, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Thanks Martha, I don't want to stop making collages in any way. I just wanted to take fewer photos of mail and spend less time on the Internet. Life is changing, and I will have to learn to save time, become more frugal. All this in order to have more time to work at the artist's Desk!
I must say that Google Translate works perfectly! He's smart!
Sep 4, 2020
Fulgor Silvi
Sep 9, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Hello, Martha. I would like to see Your online blog. I believe Your blog contains a large collection of correspondence that you have received in recent years.
In Moscow, it would be impossible to walk around with works of art attached to a bag - it's raining! The rain washes away the dust, but it doesn't wash away our fears; people around us are afraid of the virus, which returns like the biblical locust. In this situation, I need to take care of my parents ' health and not forget about my work... I wish you a successful October vacation, when you can not care about the received mail or blog, but only contemplate the space. It's as if everything is gone, and there is only the joy of being.
Oct 9, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
But where can I find your blog?
Oct 9, 2020
Carmela Rizzuto
Hi Martha--your mail art packet arrived 10/23/20. Thank you for the little gems. I'll be posting soon. Happy hooting!!
Oct 25, 2020
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Hi Martha, sorry you have trouble here at ning, hope the problems are resolved soon. Your beautiful "Greek GOLD" arrived in a fun foldilope and soon I hope something will come for your Trolley Gallery :-)
I have to wear the steel back brace until Nov. 30, but doing fine, no pain, no spams, and I can make mail art, and blog :-) No need to go out of the house, as of today we are back in lockdown...spike in Covid cases in Greece now as well. And we are very far away from the Greek island of Samos and the coast of Turkey, so we did not feel the earthquake. It is very hard for all those in that area, and with the virus raging, too. So sad.
You take care, stay safe,
See you in the mail xxx
Nov 3, 2020
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Thanks for the letter, Martha. This site is easily accessible, so I trust that your access will be restored soon.
My laptop is dead! This laptop contained photographs, poems, my books, everything else. I will buy new equipment after the end of the epidemic.
I wish you good and creative days! The kindest wishes.
Nov 4, 2020
Francis Lammé
Thank you for your inspiring comment! I have a whole series of self portraits, using reflective surfaces. I prefer the indirectness over in your face selfies and the added bonus of the reflected visuals.
Dec 15, 2020
Bruno Cassaglia
Ciao Cara Amica, Grazie! un fraterno abbraccio , cb@
Dec 15, 2020
Bruno Cassaglia
https://brunocassaglia.blogspot.com/
Dec 15, 2020
Bruno Cassaglia
Long live the IUOMA (International Union of Mail-Artists) site
Dec 16, 2020
Bruno Cassaglia
Un fraterno abbraccio W LA PACE FRA I POPOLI. cb@
Dec 23, 2020
DianeKeys
Dec 26, 2020
De Villo Sloan
Hi Martha, Trashpo Nuevo has put you bag in the mail art tabloids again. Best wishes, DVS
https://postminxus.blogspot.com/2020/12/trashpo-nuevo-for-mail-art-...
Dec 28, 2020
Mel Anie
Somehow, somewhere! If you cut it in half - lengthwise - and stick them together, it will be Janus! You can submit it as a "self-portrait of another two".
Jan 3, 2021
Mel Anie
Ah, thanks, Martha, but no. I washed my holey love sock and got my delightful technician to sew it up all lovely so that I could mail it to that island faraway in the South Atlantic Ocean. And, as I am the girl who walks with a hole in her shoe, these socks will be a stretch too cold for me.
Jan 3, 2021
Bruno Cassaglia
Nessun problema Amica Mia! W LA PACE FRA GLI ARTISTI E FRA I POPOLI! un fraterno abbraccio , bruno
Jan 4, 2021
Sabrina S
Aww, thank you and Vermina for the nice words. :)
Jan 7, 2021
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
I agree with you. Don Luís Filipe, by the way, writes poems.
Jan 13, 2021
Mel Anie
Feb 13, 2021
Mel Anie
Feb 16, 2021
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Hoping you can come to all the messages,blogs,photos, etc. here at ning, Martha.
It seems that Mel Anie in the UK is also having problems...so very strange!
Maybe create a new account? Best of luck!!!
Feb 19, 2021
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha, thank You for getting to know Your new blog.
Ilya
Feb 22, 2021
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Oh yes!
See me at this blog:
Ali Khat and friends from Mail Art Martha
meow...
And at Cat Lovers group, too :-)
Thanks so much! xxx
Mar 3, 2021
Bruno Cassaglia
Sei una cara Amica, è bello dialogare con te! era nel primo pomeriggio, ma non sono sicuro.
le impronte ci sono, ma sono leggere, a causa della luce.
come avrai notato, ora lavoro su queste poetiche vicine allo zen... un fraterno abbraccio. b
Mar 20, 2021
Jeanette Geissler
Hello Martha,
Thank you for recognition my trashpo work.
Best regards Jeanette,
picture: burned incense sticks
Apr 9, 2021
i'm a superhero
My specialty is the female nude using textures garnered from the web in digital collage. I have created several thousand such collages but I no longer share them to the community at large due to a number of reasons most notably backlash over the usage of certain copyright sticklers.
I'm in school for information security with a minor in graphic design so I know a little bit of my way around the Adobe suite. Right now we are using Dreamweaver to code websites in HTML and CSS.
I took up drawing specifically because I am terrible at it and thought it most represented the realm of *xus art-amusement despite Mark Bloch's insistence that art-amusement isn't painting or drawing.
Apr 16, 2021
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha,
thank you for the art mail. I spent a long time trying to figure out how this beautiful cat was made, sleeping peacefully on the terrace ... Is it a seal, an engraving?
Thank you for your thoughts on time and for Banana Day!
Apr 29, 2021
i'm a superhero
I've been conversing a lot with some old mail art friends on Facebook, trying to keep out of public groups after a bit of correspondence art hazing from DVS that sent me into a mental illness spiral. We've been talking about some of my old projects in private and so I'm trying to revisit a few of the (many) projects which people found most fun. I don't know if you're on Facebook but I started a revisitation of a project that used to be "Moan Lisa's Art Akademie," which has daily email art prompts and people can post their work together in the Facebook group and comment on, and encourage each other's stuff. The project is linked from artakademie.org, I dropped the "Moan Lisa" at Thomas Brown's suggestion.
Another project I'm bringing back is from my (in my opinion) most popular call for art, zombies. The original was inspired by my ex-wife's university professor who taught them a class on zombies, and I think it is one of the most accessible calls I ever made as far as getting the general public's interest in mail art to be realized. I think zombies are easy for the masses to relate to, whereas a lot of my calls have been more mail-artist-specific and not so easy for normal people to understand like asemic writing.
Anyways, zombiemailart.com links to a new Facebook group and I'll also be posting a group here in IUOMA for zombies as soon as I finish typing this comment :)
Cheers.
May 1, 2021
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Absolutely right!
This cat is beautiful, especially because there is a lot of white on the sheet and the outline is not filled in with anything. As my teacher used to say: "a lot of white is a lot of air"!
I am inspired by the idea of combining the visual with poetry.
May 1, 2021
DollyDotBoo
I agree
May 20, 2021
Francis Lammé
Received your mail! Going to make a moment of it after sending you this message!
Jun 19, 2021
Bruno Cassaglia
Ciao Marta! un fraterno abbraccio, Bruno
Hello Marta! a fraternal hug, Bruno
Oct 2, 2021
Bruno Cassaglia
Ciao Martha, ho ricevuto la tua Mail Art,ma fatico a leggere l'inglese scrittoa mano, io uso
il traduttore...un fraterno abbraccio . b
Hi Martha, I received your Mail Art, but I struggle to read handwritten English, I use the translator ... a fraternal embrace. b
Oct 26, 2021
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha, I thank you for your October Mail Art conveying the beauty of your garden!
Nov 8, 2021
Mikel Untzilla
Thanks Mail Art Martha
Dec 16, 2021
DKeys
Thanks for the Solstice Greetings! Hope you are doing well!
Dec 22, 2021
Sabrina S
You're welcome, Martha - and I am happy it arrived in one piece. I did not know if it was maybe waaaay to risky to send it without envelope so I am surprised in a positive way everything is still in place.
Jan 15, 2022
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Tiger is here!
Thank you, Mail Art Martha! xxx
Feb 22, 2022
Mail Art Martha
Thank you Katerina for posting the tiger. Now I shall post here something I have been working on all afternoon. I joined the group Embasy of Ukraine too.
Feb 28, 2022
Bruno Cassaglia
Grazie Martha! W LA PACE FRA I POPOLI - MAIL ART = PACE
Thanks Martha! W PEACE AMONG PEOPLES - MAIL ART = PEACE
https://brunocassaglia.blogspot.com/
Mar 12, 2022
Ilya Semenenko-Basin
Dear Martha,
I'm glad my collage was appropriate.
So, now I know that letters from Moscow to the UK are being delivered! This is amazing, the postal service, as it promised, has shown wonders of ingenuity. Consequently, my postal connection to the outside world is not severed.
Mar 22, 2022
Bruno Cassaglia
Cara Amica i miei gruppi sono aperti a tutti, ma se nessuno posta immagini li posto io...
un fraterno abbraccio , b
Mar 25, 2022
Bruno Cassaglia
Dear Friend, my groups are open to everyone, but if no one posts pictures, I'll post them ...
a fraternal embrace, b
Mar 25, 2022