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When I cannot look at your face 

I look at your feet. 

Your feet of arched bone, 

your hard little feet. 

Those are the words of Pablo Neruda. Nothing arched or hard here, only the sweetest feet ever, gently resting on a Byzantine floor, so light they could actually be floating. Just one look at this card and a…

Mail art from Iona Bennie, Cape Town

Iona Bennie in Cape Town, a fantastic artist in her own right sent me this contribution to The World is a Town Project.  Made of recycled novel paper and what could be telephone book paper/newspaper ,  words lie within the frail skin surface.  Layering of many,  many words, a recontextualisation of that which has already been written.  Is that not the essence of a hyper-palimpsest?

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Eduardo Cardoso (Sines, Portugal)

February 11, 2011 - Eduardo Cardoso is a fantastic mail-artist and visual poet. This recent installment of his work that arrived in my p.o. box…

Mail Art  from  Eduardo Cardoso (Paranormal Mail Art)

Received second week February 2011.

An Ardent Zalopist, Eduardo made the FIRST ZALOP video in the whole world! Imagine that? He sent me a ZALOP  trading card from a Duel Masters game – ok, I’m wading in the dark here??

AND another ANOMALY.   People being wheeled through the sky pursued by flying tanks…

Just wanted to let everyone know that my magazine Un<>Cut which is published twice a year is now available in both print and PDF format. The July 2010 issue in PDF format is being offered at $2 and the December issue in PDF format is $2.50.  If you purchase printed copies of either issue, you will also get a free PDF download of it.

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan)

February 10, 2011 - Many IUOMA members and others in the mail-art network are familiar with Marie Wintzer's beautiful Tokyo night photos. It is a gift indeed to receive…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Katerina Nikoltsou (Thessaloniki Greece)

February 9, 2011 - Still wrapping up some notable pieces from 2010 ("The Year Fluxus Broke" according to Mudhead), here is a beautiful haptic piece…

It's been a hard Winter.  People like our Helen Amyes are dealing with natural disasters.  The eastern States have been buried in snow all Winter.  Here in the Midwest, we've had a blizzard and now sub zero temperatures.  I need to lighten up.  I want to…

The best medicine when you are in bed with the flu is?

MAIL ART!

First came the boekies: "A" from dear Sloan, "K" of John Bennet's from Sloan, and "T" from TicTac!

Beauties, each one! Amazing, creative expressions of letters for Project…