February 2011 Blog Posts (221)

Mail art from Iona Bennie, Cape Town

Iona Bennie in Cape Town, a fantastic artist in her own right sent me this contribution to The World is a Town Project.  Made of recycled novel paper and what could be telephone book paper/newspaper ,  words lie within the frail skin surface.  Layering of many,  many words, a recontextualisation of that which has already been written.  Is that not the essence of a hyper-palimpsest?

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Eduardo Cardoso (Sines, Portugal)

February 11, 2011 - Eduardo Cardoso is a fantastic mail-artist and visual poet. This recent installment of his work that arrived in my p.o. box…

Mail Art  from  Eduardo Cardoso (Paranormal Mail Art)

Received second week February 2011.

An Ardent Zalopist, Eduardo made the FIRST ZALOP video in the whole world! Imagine that? He sent me a ZALOP  trading card from a Duel Masters game – ok, I’m wading in the dark here??

AND another ANOMALY.   People being wheeled through the sky pursued by flying tanks…

Just wanted to let everyone know that my magazine Un<>Cut which is published twice a year is now available in both print and PDF format. The July 2010 issue in PDF format is being offered at $2 and the December issue in PDF format is $2.50.  If you purchase printed copies of either issue, you will also get a free PDF download of it.

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan)

February 10, 2011 - Many IUOMA members and others in the mail-art network are familiar with Marie Wintzer's beautiful Tokyo night photos. It is a gift indeed to receive…

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

February 9, 2011 - Still wrapping up some notable pieces from 2010 ("The Year Fluxus Broke" according to Mudhead), here is a beautiful haptic piece…

It's been a hard Winter.  People like our Helen Amyes are dealing with natural disasters.  The eastern States have been buried in snow all Winter.  Here in the Midwest, we've had a blizzard and now sub zero temperatures.  I need to lighten up.  I want to…

The best medicine when you are in bed with the flu is?

MAIL ART!

First came the boekies: "A" from dear Sloan, "K" of John Bennet's from Sloan, and "T" from TicTac!

Beauties, each one! Amazing, creative expressions of letters for Project…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Tina Festa (Matera, Italy)

February 9, 2011 - Tina Festa included me in her first mail-art series of the year. I am very pleased to receive this piece. She works in many different areas. In…

What are rabbits up to in their spare time? For all I know they might be tap dancing, but today Lisa is revealing another one of their favorite activities with this postcard: shadow hands (literally)! Unbelievably cute and funny :-))

4079 refers to the year 2011 according to the Lunar Calendar. Oh yes, it is that late already...

Thank you very much Lisa, this is a great…

Mail Art received second week of February 2011.

Pieces of my dismantled book The World is a Town have been sent into many corners of the globe.  Sometimes I despair at receiving answers.  But then, a piece like this one from Skybridge Studio's arrives and the world is rose colored again :-)…

Send to  a Mail Art Call, an event titled AGORA GEROEZEMOES relating to the work of Agora Studio.