February 2012 Blog Posts (262)

Thank you Guido for your Rebel painting! I do try to rebel against my own bad habits of thinking..

A great package of vispo boekies and other art from John M. Bennett arrived in Greece on Tuesday

but I am finally able to blog today. One wants to take time to "read" and view the art of JMB, slowly and carefully.

Also the "pamphlets" need to have the pages sliced, or  "caressed" open, something that makes the process of reading and looking even more…

A while ago I received my weekly food ration from DK, slightly wrecked by the postal system - I just couldn't make out what it was orginally, but remembered the cracker packages I've already seen on other blogs. Thanks for sending this culinary reward to DKunst, Diane!!

But that wasn't all: As if DK had known that I'm planning a big…

Nancy is doing a fabulous job of putting ART into Mail Art!

It has me thinking, pondering, going deep-in-the-blue.

I am overjoyed to receive one of her painting pieces, 'tis an amazing series she is doing!

Even the flip side…

I received this from Cheryl Penn.  Look carefully at this envelope. Could it be? Is Cheryl slowly being won over to the dark side? Did she paint me a RK turtle? I'm reasonably sure this will horrify Marie. Is DKult SA going to become a reality? I can only hope and chant on it.  p.s. Cheryl, my daughter LOVES…

An Exotic Valentine from the East from Valentine Marks Herman!

with a nice invite to get to Narbonne and then perhaps to Sigean?

Look at this handsome guy in the beret...where has he gone?

Sure wish he would return soon to…

Those bar codes get around:

Cerealistic packaging arrived in Greece and opened to a treasure of DK treasures!

(Bar Code notice with postage stamping ;-)

These fine transparent "playing cards" are an inspiration

for me to…

This is a piece of the whole...

a deconstruction of a thick, tactile,haptic painting (beautiful aroma of paints here)

"The Authentic Massacre of the Innocent Image" or the "Flight of Art in the Mail"?…

Cheryl and I have an ongoing collaboration called The Book of Ether. Maybe you were not around when it all took off, so I will start by quoting Cheryl and her short version of what Ether is: an alternate existence created in the mind due to internet connections. This is only the very short version, of course, and every chapter unveils a little bit more…

You all know Cheryl's Mona Lisa mail-art call. It's got so many fantastic contributions, better than a museum! Cheryl made a boekie with the first four entries when the project was still very young, and I am the happy owner of one of them. Here are a few pictures for you.

Oh, I almost forgot the poem, I couldn't quite figure out wether it was from Keats or…

A long day last Friday which ended in a surprise.  We got home very late (or early in the morning) from seeing the Paris avant premiere of "The Iron Lady" which was a good film but I fell asleep 3 times.  Meryl Streep was fab in the role of Margaret Thatcher.  Too tired to go to sleep we chatted awhile in the kitchen when I noticed that I still had not opened Erni’s package. …

The Banana Family strikes again....another ski trip accident...good thing the labrador was there to pick up any left over pieces...

Love all the detail Dean...Super work....  *!*

Do you think the Banana Family should try another…

Nadine what a beautiful card you sent...I love all the Flutterbyes escaping to fly free...just like a mental block finally finding its way into the light...Thank you so much...

Thank you so much Brent for all the delicious mail art that come in one envelope...…

A small envelope with lots of exceptional goodies...I always enjoy Samuels mail....there is never just one piece to ooh and ahh over!…

Inside was a vintage page from the Illustrated London News!  Will find it difficult to use it in collage, as suggested, as it's so beautiful. Thanks Debbie.

Whoo Hooo!  At last one of Dean's fabulous Rubber Band Webs has graced my mailbox.  And what a delight it is.  Many thanks to you, Dean. 

It has everything a girl could want and lots more to ponder.  Like who ate that chocolate bar and was it delicious?  Did Dean eat it or was it the postman that delivered it to my house?  Who but Dean would think of combining a tiny book, a pin with a running man, an army tank, a shoe string and lots of ribber bands, into an object of mail…

Received from De Villo Sloan and accompanied with a certificate of authenticity.  Actually, DVS graciously sent this to me while ago.  A looong while ago.  I left it in limbo, thinking I had published it and found it this morning, as I was cleaning up my files.  My appoligies, DVS.  Please forgive me for my oversight, lack of sight, lack of computer skill or whatever, my friend..

This piece of the shroud is even one of the coveted "button holes".  He cautions me that the…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Carl T. Chew (Seattle, Washington, USA)

"The chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table."

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