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After a lot of sweating and swearing and dozens of needle pokes, I finally finished Boekie 1. I know there are several architectural mistakes, but hey, it's the first one, and I quite like it. It will contain Cheryl Penn's correspondence. I now need to (slowly) tackle Boekie 2 for other received mail. It will have to be quite different to accommodate all kinds of formats including A4 pages. Hmmm, I don't have a clear idea of what it should look like yet...

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Skybridge Studios (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

February 15, 2011 - Skybridge Studios' Year of the Rabbit mail-art currently in circulation hardly needs introduction or explanation. I…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Brent Leopold (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA)

February 15, 2011 - One of my earliest IUOMA friends, Brent Leopold, sent me a new round of mail-art that includes the image above of a spray paint can (or…

Mail Art Received First Week of February 2011

Jon was a very active IUOMA member, now he's a little quiet.  But I guess the beginning of the year stuff gets everyone on the trot.  This FAB tape transfer card of the Alexandrian Crowd - its SO going into the book Jon, so you DID contribute :-)

OF COURSE there's later - thats one of the wonderful gifts of…

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Mailart Received

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is a call to mail postcard size mail art before 29 July 2011. Free medium.

Documentation on the blog http://artepostaloslivros.blogspot.com/

Mail your contributions to Constança Lucas, Arte Postal Os Livros, C.P. 1599, 01031-970 Sao Paulo, SP, BRAZIL.

Mail Art Received Second Week of February

With great elation I received Susanna’s beautifully crafted Letter Q contribution to Project 26 – a mythological artifact.  It even carries the fragrance of a mythological order of Flutterby.  Susanna is a fellow Alternate Realitarian I can see.

Send to  the Mail Art Call, titled "GEORGE MACIUNAS AND BEYOND : FLUXUS NEVER STOPS".
The Exhibition will be part of  TEXTILE 11/KAUNAS BIENNIAL / FLUXUS,  in Lithuania in 2011.

From the House of Paranormal Mail Art comes Eduardo's, "Minimal Interiors". He began with a photocopy of interior anatomy and added collage elements of the alphabet, the title, and images of 3-D objects. His signature red stamp contrasts nicely with the muted tone of the piece. Eduardo's mail art reminds me of Magritte's, "Treachery of Images--Ceci n'est pas une Pipe." This is…

I have lots of Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell circulars.  These are some early ones before we started sending in stamps, seals, ephemera to be included…