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Mail-art by IUOMA member David Stafford (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

December 28, 2014 - The inclusion of a pipe-bedecked David Stafford in the holiday card he sent me this year puts me in a mood for a bit of puffery as…

For those few of you who missed Nadine's One Person Show at the Burbank Museum of Unnatural History, here's a quick review from the Burbank Gazetteer:

Wendell-Mojica's stinging portraiture produces a laugh and a wince when we realize balloting may be going on behind our own backs. Through January…

From the Catalogue:

Like Diane Keys and Nadine Wendell-Mojica, Bruns is a culler of culture, a diva of detritus who captures the zeitgeist daily in scraps of ephemera. The gestalt of the assemblage IS the art, a snapshot (or scrapshot, if you will) of a flailing culture amid which we flounder, up to our eyes in the onslaught of imagery that…

I had admired Linda Faye French's series The Theory of Buttons. Each piece is subtitled, and, for me, the titles enhance the work.

Completely unexpected, The Theory of Buttons Solar, Electrical appeared in my mailbox.

Many silvered and blackened orbits, against a cosmic green and mauve firmament. With suns, planets, moons tightly…

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Tiffany Bahan (Urbana, Ohio, USA)

December 27, 2014 - Thanks to Tiffany Bahan for sending this beautiful, postcard-size collage. She certainly brightens what was a bleak, grey December…

Every once in a while -- well, every day-- I find my way to Google Translate to decipher a word, phrase, or conversation. Type in the text, read the Google translation. But oh my! I'm certain that some parts of the translations are not what the original writer intended, since they make no sense. And I'm sometimes wondering how Google Translate is butchering my American English. Advice to self: steer clear of idioms. I have a really good example of this phenomenon:  Google Translates "All I…

Threnody for a Forgotten Plague, Christmas…

Happy Christmas !

And thank you for Granny Eliane ( my mother ). Your mailarts are so sweet !…

wonderful collage PC from Val.France. The back side I entitled "Mermaid" from several beach images.

the address side is a hoot...full of the bull!

thank you so much Val...happy new…

Look what happens when you're behind in posting...you find wonderful little art goodies like this "Spy Notebook" from Rebecca!!!! I am going through this again with amazement what recycled Trash can become...the front and back are made up of layered heated plastic (I believe)..the insides are recycled papers beautifully repainted. This is very inspiring...…

A beautiful photo collage honoring the small businesses in downtown Oakland, CA. USA. From the shading to the wonderful eclectic array of signage shows us a glimpse of how colorful our world is. The beauty as seen through Fleur's camera.

and some…

"Solid State" by Douglas Galloway...

thank you *!*

My first ever piece from Stan. I was tickled to get this piece in the mail. It is a piece of beauty, thought provoking and clean elegance...

front cover...

inside....

back...…