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Mail Art received now now.

You all know what Val's envelopes look like - right? Most of us at one or another time have had the pleasure of receiving his square missives - to be opened or not.

BUT!!!! I dont think any ONE of them has had a package like this.  Except mine.…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa)

January 19, 2011 - Cheryl Penn sent this fascinating word weave (below) along with some of her distinctive style of asemic writing (above). I…

My first ever envelope from Australia arrived last week. Until now I only admired Helen's work on other people's blogs, but I am now the proud owner of one of her cards. A big slice of Australia for me, starting with the kangaroo envelope (love it!).

The card is a book page decorated with painting, postal stamps, rubber stamps? (not sure) and... one of Helen's silky…

FLUXUS ARTWORK!! )))…

...especially when I figure it out. Eventually.

I found this exquisite postcard  with my mail today.

Thank you "man of mystery"!…

Ideal, indeed. Inside the main envelope were three smaller packages:…

 Mail Art Books

Just in case some of you were wondering what happened to your art once it reached the bottom of the world, here is the latest mail art book I have compiled with mail from all over the world.  It was begun in July last year.  Titled 19^th July 2010 – 31 December 2010 it holds many of the mail art pieces I have received during that period which are of  similar size.    If the artwork was A6 size and the envelope bigger, the envelope was cut to fit.  Other than…

Mail Art Received second week January 2011.

 Judith has contributed three  beautiful photo montages for The World is a Town project.  As many of you know, The Novgorod Codex, dating back to the 11^th century resulted in an artist’s book The World is a Town which has slowly been fragmented into the world.  The writer so long ago laments his own personal position - a surprisingly postmodern global village lament. All the contributions I receive will form Volume 2  of…

Great synthesis Stefano ! The blue horse art…

i received this delightful card from Katerina Nikoltsu today, my first from Greece.

you will observe that the stamp on the left side of the card bears the message "JAN 21 2011". you will also note the motif of straight lines, made curvy on that same left side. the opposite side gives greetings for the Chinese New Year, year of the rabbit.

very…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Karen Champlin (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

January 17, 2011 - Karen Champlin has done a stunning new series of postcard-size asemic letters with stamp images, and I was very pleased to receive this…