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Mail-Art Artist Trading Card design for IUOMA members Angie and Snooky (Port Washington, Wisconsin, USA). Snooker photo titled "Snooker Contemplates the Paradox of the Indeterminate Floating Signifier" by Angie Cope.

December 18, 2010 - The Artist Trading Card (ATC) is a world within…

Where do…

Happy Holidays to All!!!!

MIMZY JOY - 2010

Please check out my blog, davidberube.blogspot.com for a new posting of my Holiday prints through the years 1995 - 2010

Mail-art by IUOMA member Matthew Stolte (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

December 16, 2010 - The 11.3 Days of Mail-Art Vispo Marathon continues thanks to Matthew Stolte who sent me this postcard-size piece. IUOMA is a great place to find mail-artists whose interests match yours thanks to the online portfolios, groups, and discussions. I first saw Matt's work…

Mail Art Received 13th December 2010

This is the first time I have received mail art from Argentina - what a wonderful surprise - a FAB collage on red for The Red Book by Comunicacion a Distancia mail artist Samuel Montalvetti.

Scanning, copying, paper, text, stamps, ink, its all here in this wonderful mellifuous collage. .

Looking at Samuel's…

5X5X1cm if I remember well

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A mixed media tag, done in watercolor, pencil, and ink.......I think.  And the other side is random writing.

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Side one is titled 'Unity" side two is titled 'Represent Truth"  the tag has an acrylic varnish that makes it look almost 3d.…

The muses have been favoring Marie from the get go and this mail art is no exception. She refers to it as a prototype and I really think she's created something that can be explored and expanded for some time. I like the anime character appearing…

Mail Art received 10th December 2010

Ok ok - I KNOW what I saw, Bifidus said I didn't so I'm not saying what I saw although I know I did. Bifidus said it was Latin and was hapic braille - that part I got - the other well...

Clue - I held this to the mirror - he said - WHAT ON EARTH FOR??? I repeat. I'm not saying what I saw because he said that's how rumors…

Mail Art with the theme of Burnt Books, inspired by the new book of the same name by Roger Kamenetz, published by NextBook Press. Size: standard postcard, any medium, on-line documentation. NOTE, there is a deadline of 1 January 2011. There will an exhibition of the works in New York City. For more information see the website:…

I met Jennie at the Tokyo Art Book Fair last summer, where she had a stand. This was also my first encounter with art books, and my fist encounter with mail art. What can I say, I fell in love. I owe Jennie a lot, without her I wouldn't be aware of this very special world of mail art, and she is a truly nice person and a talented artist.

The (plastic) envelope she sent me cracked me up. It is a traditional japanese household budget envelope. Each month one can write how much one spent…

As I've been playing with collage more in my mailart, I've been looking for snips of old text that correspond with the theme of a piece. Working in a library as I do, I have access to discarded books, but it's often tricky to get exactly what I'm looking for.

Recently I began fooling around with Google Books, and I'm falling in love with it as a source for old texts. I can do a keyword search and limit to "Full View" in the…