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Hugo! Reveal Yourself!

I received a card from Hugo - a gorgeous caricature drawn/painted onto cardboard. I am seeing blind Hugo - come out the cupboard! But from your signature you are a graphic designer?? Thank you - I will return the favor on Tuesday.

Added by cheryl penn on October 9, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

An Envelope is Superior to Email so says Valentine Mark Herman

Thursday was a wonderful day. I understood Valentine's message on his page that "An envelope is superior to an email". How true. One can hold an envelope, runs ones fingers where the artist has made conscious decisions to paste, collage and draw visual images. I could own an envelope all the way from France. Words in cyberspace float in their own miasma, giving us no satisfaction of ownership - by his gift, I now own Valentines envelope, a piece of his art. AND MAN!! The curiosity of whether or… Continue

Added by cheryl penn on October 9, 2010 at 8:35pm — 1 Comment

Return of the Astronaut from herr ERNI

ERni's eagerly awaited mail FINALLY arrived on Thursday. It was very apposite to our discussions on the landing of mail art. Somehow his card make me think that under his suit, the astronaut had carefully chosen his underclothes so that should he be taken by moon residents, they would be overwhelmed by the colors of earth in comparison to the greyness of their planet. They would be so overwhelmed in fact they would let him go in exchange for his glittering undergarments. I looked up ERni's… Continue

Added by cheryl penn on October 9, 2010 at 8:21pm — 1 Comment

Happy Birthday John...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKsgaXQy2k

Added by liketelevisionsnow on October 9, 2010 at 7:01pm — No Comments

4 Senses

Nonprofit institution of disabled people of Samara region "The Center of Social Initiatives" invites you to participate in mail-art project.

The topic is "4 Senses".

Usually one have 5 base sensations: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory and sense of smell. visual sensation is critical because it gives majority of infor…mation about environment.

There are colourful ads, shop windows, coloured walls, vivid buses and trams around us. There is a lot of visual… Continue

Added by Yana Yaroshevskaya on October 9, 2010 at 5:37pm — 1 Comment

Happy Birthday John Lennon...70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduaMSZqn1Y&feature=featured

Added by liketelevisionsnow on October 9, 2010 at 1:41pm — 1 Comment

Nara Map envelope

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Added by Tomoe N on October 9, 2010 at 9:19am — No Comments

Wrapping paper envelope

With the template of envelope I made yesterday, I started making envelope.

Today I use wrapping paper to make envelope. On the back of the paper, I used Japanese paper tearing off and do collages to make more elaborate, even inside the envelope. I could not do well with folding, so I will be careful next time. I learned that when I paste a… Continue

Added by Tomoe N on October 9, 2010 at 9:13am — No Comments

Received: Assemblage mail-art from Karen Champlin (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

October 7, 2010 - Karen Champlin sent me a new set of her mail-art assemblages, which I appreciate very much. It just seems to me her work gets better and better. In a previous blog, I discussed at length the relation of her work to vispo. Her use of textual material becomes increasingly more diverse and complex. This piece is the first example of something I've received from her that… Continue

Added by De Villo Sloan on October 8, 2010 at 10:00am — 6 Comments

Rosa Gravino received from Keith A. Buchholz

Added by Rosa Gravino on October 7, 2010 at 7:04pm — No Comments

Rosa Gravino received from Julia Izmailova (Russia)

Added by Rosa Gravino on October 7, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Received: Pulp fiction mail-art from Jon Foster (Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA)

October 5, 2010 - Jon Foster from the southeastern part of the U.S. sent me this very economical or minimalist piece of mail-art that I appreciate very much. The majority of space is distressed blank cardboard. Although, as you can see faintly, there is some - what I take to be - indented store coding of the "found variety." The obscured eyes are… Continue

Added by De Villo Sloan on October 7, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Never everything - from Cheryl Penn

"I have started a series of cards where other mail artists get a bit/bite/section of a painting/drawing. These cards are intended to deal with the fact that in life we never get everything, but the bright bits we DO get can make it all worthwhile".

Those are Cheryl's words that accompany the mail I got yesterday. What can I say, what could I add to those words and this card? It's utterly brilliant, so I'm not going to say much more. Just enjoy the art. I wish these pictures… Continue

Added by Marie Wintzer on October 7, 2010 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

Received: Part III Brent Leopold's mail-art prints (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA)

October 5, 2010 - This is the final installment from the series of mail-art prints Brent Leopold in Pennsylvania sent me. In the beginning I focused on the larger prints in the collection. Some of the smaller pieces (you can't judge size well from the scans) are very interesting. Brent produced somewhere around 1,300 prints last summer. A real project would be to look through the… Continue

Added by De Villo Sloan on October 6, 2010 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

From Cheryl Penn

Beautiful work from Cheryl. My first art from her and I hope many more will come. Now I've really got to get my brain into gear and send something to her as equally amazing as…

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Added by Frank Odette on October 6, 2010 at 1:23am — 2 Comments

Orphan symmetry card - from RCBz

Quite proud to get this orphan card from RCBz today, and to close the loop of his (failed, apparently) experiment. It might be too small for you to read his explanation on the card, but basically, if I'm getting it right, RCBz has been sending the same card to several people, as part of the "Science Project", with the idea of sending back a symmetry card to each reply he would get. That sounds like a great idea to me, but… Continue

Added by Marie Wintzer on October 5, 2010 at 12:53pm — No Comments

Received: Honest mom, Simba ate Erni Bar's mail-art (Hamburg, Germany)

(Re-enactment of Simba eating Erni Bar's mail-art; no mail-art was harmed.)

October 4, 2010 - Dear Erni, I deeply appreciate that you sent me chocolate from Germany. I would advise most people not to ingest mail-art. But Erni, you are a very good IUOMA friend and fellow Dharma Bum. I had no concern…

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Added by De Villo Sloan on October 5, 2010 at 10:30am — 7 Comments

CALL for CAT ART ... http://fortheloveofcats-mailart.blogspot.com/

A few changes made on the blog...numbering and listing of contributors/artists.
There are a few new pieces that may have originated from IUOMA ...Thank you !
http://fortheloveofcats-mailart.blogspot.com/

Added by Nikki Soppelsa on October 4, 2010 at 6:47pm — 1 Comment

Received today from Yves Maraux

Added by liketelevisionsnow on October 4, 2010 at 4:59pm — No Comments

Received today from Yves Maraux

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