February 2011 Blog Posts (221)

Ordinary Objects - Laundry Basket & Stool

Mail-art by IUOMA member Austin Wills James (Dallas, Texas, USA)

February 27, 2011 - Austin Wills James is releasing a new line of mail-art after a brief hiatus from the network. It's great to see his work again and have him…

I may have to go offline for a while. It's been heavy going at our main office, where a war horse of a computer is showing signs of possibly having some sort of a breakdown here shortly. We may have to take it to the dealer for work, or even leave it there for further study. Right now we are holding steady, but it seems sketchy for us here. Our nerve center blowing its top would not be funny.

It could get cleared up about midweek, but there's no telling, really.

Take care…

Send to  the Mail Art Call, titled " 1962-2012-50 years of Mail Art ", in homage to Ray Johnson from the New York School of CorresponDance, the exhibition will be in Italy on 2012...

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First let me thank all those who participated in the project up to this point. It has been more sucssesful than I ever imagined.

 However after having a very seriuos virus removed from my desk top computer, it has left me with a strange after effect. I can no longer post to the IUOMA blog! I have no idea why. I am posting this from my lap top. But the lap top is not connected to my scanner, so it is just a hassel to scann tags into the desk top then try and get them on the lap top to…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Katerina Nikoltsou (Thessaloniki, Greece)

February 26, 2011 - Katerina Nikoltsou sent a gorgeous piece that could be a contender for the first sandpo mail-art book, when taken as a stand-alone. I've…

How amazing is the work of Karen! And each piece is unique and more dynamic than the earlier ones received.

These two are "companion" pieces, as it is "my man with the blue beret" and his "house". Asemic writings are

stamped throughout and haptic textures abound!…

An amazing little boekie from Lesley with her recycled drawings that spread to both

the front and back cover, revealing a man of strong character and stance.

I was captivated by the expressive line and tone design of the details of the…

This golden lion with snakes coming forth is a four-part folded image of the new boekie that

arrived yesterday from Cheryl, filled with the aroma of oil paint and turps. A most unusual

folded booklet, it opens simply and intriguingly develops into an entire…

Bain de couleurs with this mail from Viviana Cernjul. This is the work of a meticulous little mail art ant, all the lines of the envelope are cut out and glued on, and some of the circle inside the square are too, if not filled with felt-tip pen. A lot of work!

Thank you Viviana!…

A fun envelope from Lin Collette, with ATC. Thank you Lin!…

Today I received…

Mail Art Received last week of February 2011.

What an excellent way to end the last week of February - an asemic tablet from Karen :-) the fraternization of letters and symbols and asemic writing to create a palimpsest of complexity.

Thank you Karen - you now have your own red box with white spots :-)

Mail art received second week January…