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Yesterday, when I got home from 10 days away from my mailbox, I found a BUNCH of wonderful mail art, including this fat envelope from Carina. Inside were many wonders, including the piece at the top of the photo, a digital fold out of what looks like a big fat…

I love how the torn edges look like snow.

Thanks for the scanner warning, Kat!…

Mail art by IUOMA member DSF (Dopesick San Francisco) aka Michael Kelly (Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA)

July 24, 2016 - Here is belated documentation of two originals (hand-altered collage) by DSF. This has been a week for…

A great little piece I received just today, although my scanner seems to have "erased" an important part of the piece. There's a yellow highlighter sort of "outline" around the upper edges of all of the buildings at the top of the piece, which I believe is meant to be representative of the sunrise over the city.



If this piece is all hand drawn, it's certainly very…

Mail art by IUOMA member Mora Chepin (San Francisco, California, USA)

July 22, 2016 - Mail art is alive, well and thriving on the West Coast of the United States. I attempted to document the cuerrent scene in my (admittedly…

     As explained on the back, this is a monotype Jokie did thirty years ago.  I really like it and find myself gazing at it all day.

      Let me see, the big hit of July 1986 was "Holding Back the Years" by Simply Red.  How appropriate! 

By the way, Simply Red is…

Mail art by IUOMA member Zipelit (New York City, USA?)

July 21, 2016 - Zipelit is a somewhat mysterious character who is a member of IUOMA, but not much background material is available. I certainly admire this image I was…

I could be blind

And be just fine

So long as you tell me everything I need to see

Tell me everything I need to see

Like how the world has gone to hell

But it's how it needs to be

Look at this...carefully and closely...

...out of the see-through envelope.

Thank you so much!…

Purple Moon and Banana Stars from Katerina.



A new issue of Circulaire 132 with fantastic postage stamps.…

An envelope full of fluXus bucks from Ex Post Facto,

I'll be sending out this good currency of the United Eternal Network soon.

And also adding and passing on this too:…

Wonderful stamps , full of whimsy...

and this Air Mail is such fun to see,  too,says the postman!

See a happy…

Do what you Love.  Ah Ah Ah  Surely making Mail Art is something Erni loves to do.  At least I'm the sheep dog and not the sheep.  Then again would I like being a…

The latest from Eva in Morocco -- there's definitely something blue and fishy going on in the mail lately

Mail art by IUOMA member Richard Canard (Carbondale, Illinois, USA)

July 20, 2016 - North Carolina networker Jon Foster initiated a punk revival in mail art circa 2010, which has had considerable impact in the contemporary…

A most unusual package was left on the front stoop yesterday. Newer IUOMA member Vikki Johnson and I decided to exchange fiber art mail art, so I knew that this amazingly decorated box would contain something quite interesting... I wasn't expecting such a large "production," but quite a lot of work went into this piece...so I'm going to make a visual…

The best up-cycling I've seen in a long time! A business envelope turned inside-out to show its confidentiality pattern on the outside, with the envelope window revealing a peek at the delicious contents inside...

And…

Received this envelope today with no return address but a cedar rapids postmark. That's one of my address labels so it must be someone I've sent mail to.



Inside was the poetry call:…

From Torma Cauli, a small folded trashpo card, photo of a door/lock and funny envelope.

From FinnBadger, a ghostly map, marbled paper (with shaving cream!), collage and wonderful stamps.…

When this arrived in the mail it caused quite a sensation at my house.  Two friends and I all had to look two or three times, very closely, to see if this was an actual butterfly somehow mounted on heavy weight art paper or maybe a finely detailed photo of one that Heleen sent to me.  I swear I can see the dust on it's wings.  It's simply unbelievable.  We were in shock…