Thom Courcelle's Blog – January 2025 Archive (6)

Posts from Cascadian-Range Locals (Locations Variable) Performing FLUX BOMBING

Two Cascadian local-yokels documented their rogue Flux Bombing antics in the Capitol City of Olympia, Washington. YES TO ART BOMBING AND PUBLIC INSTALLATION CREATIVITY!! Although often considered a form of "graffiti," this type of "exhibit installation" is actually harmless entertainment that gives citizens out in public the chance to experience underground art installation.…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 23, 2025 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Hanna Wright sent Holiday Greetings with Many Visual Delights

Hanna Wright sent a holiday envelope that was a virtual cornucopia of visual entertainment. This included several of her "star-man" figures and experimental figures. I was reminded by several of them of the Greek mythological monster Argos (or Argus) Panoptes, who had a hundred eyes and could see everything around him at once. He was the perfect guardian of prisoners to prevent escape...…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 23, 2025 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Diana Hale wins the Artistamp Creativity Award AGAIN!

Always a simple envelope...WITH A REALLY AMAZING PRIZE INSIDE!

Diana Hale proves herself to be a master artistamper...I bow before her creativity:

34? THIRTY-FOUR?? What on earth could that be in reference to??!

A closer look might give you a hint:…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 7:24pm — 2 Comments

Teal-colored Mail Art from Mikel Untizilla (Celebrating Anna Banana)

Mikel must have gotten a new stamping pad...and I have to say that I LIKE the new color A LOT!!!

Teal is the color of the day, and used in conjunction with Mikel's amazing carved stamping, makes for some amazing mail art fodder...…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 6:05pm — 1 Comment

Life is a Blur — The Light-Trick Photography of Rebecca Resinski

Rebecca Sent me a terrific envelope of mailart that included some of her experimental photography and a lovely little visual poetry accordion boekie:

If that photo looks a bit blurry, it's because that's the "look" Rebecca was going for when she took a camera shot of some forested woods on a morning walk. She had to "trick" her camera into…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Holiday Greetings and More from Katerina Nikoltsou in Greece

A long-over-due posting of some Greek mailart greetings that included Holiday well-wishes and celebratory New Year's cupcakes...from Katerina Nikoltsou!

I think I first learned what this year's totem Chinese animal for the year was going to be—the snake!—from Katerina's mailart... I should know these things, but at least Kat will…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

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