February 2011 Blog Posts (221)

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…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)

February 12, 2011 - The interest in creating mail-art books started here at the IUOMA is opening new fields for many mail-artists. Anyone can make…

Maybe it's because I'm tired of winter, but I'm seeing clear signs of spring in this work: seeds, femininity, fertility, and by the look on the figure's face, she's thinking something hopeful. Like her previous work, Ka's precise collage straddles the line between…

When I cannot look at your face 

I look at your feet. 

Your feet of arched bone, 

your hard little feet. 

Those are the words of Pablo Neruda. Nothing arched or hard here, only the sweetest feet ever, gently resting on a Byzantine floor, so light they could actually be floating. Just one look at this card and a…