May 2011 Blog Posts (198)

Mail-art by IUOMA member Richard Canard (Champagne, Illinois, USA)

May 6, 2011 - Richard Canard sent me this asemic poem (above). I am SO glad to be the recipient of his mail-art. A response to him is forthcoming just as quickly as I can produce something I…

Sarah Pender m'écrit de la prison pour femmes d'Indianapolis.

Elle m'invite à participer à son appel à projet autour des mains(qui cuisinent,jardinent,peignent,etc...)Invitation aux dessins,collages etc..

Date limite 28oct 2011

L'adresse:

Art For Humanity P.O. Box 36244 Indianapolis, IN 46236 USA

Le site: http://holdinghandsforsocialjustice.blogspot.com/





Faites…

Sent to the Mail Art Call titled "Ultima", the works will be exhibited in Ultima which is a squatted, surrealistic place in the middle of Ljubljana, Slovenia. This exhibition will be permanent.…

From Off Scene Akademie Hamburg...the Haptic Werewolf and Herr Haptic Erni sent this DRIFTWOOD!

It was found in Wisch (Make-a-Wish:-) on the sandy banks of the river Elbe in Germany.…

An Invitation for a "borrel"= drink in Maastricht and Young Mr Tony Curtis.

Only wish if Mr Tony would attend…

I received this in my mailbox today.

And inside I found a shoe and a foot.

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Jen Staggs (Dallas, Texas, USA)

May 5, 2010 - Have you ever fallen into some kind of network black hole with a mail-art friend? This has been happening to me and Jen Staggs, probably for two months.…

Very GREEN and very Aussie! This is Number 138 of her 365 project...making mail art everyday, even while on-the-road. Perhaps Erni can tell us what the music score is on the right? Looks German! But it is GREEN and with 

nice green overlays, too.…

A translucent envelope reveals unique "trash"-in-the-mail! I hesitate to open the envelope, as the contents can be seen through its transparency. And that makes a "flu" image, both sides, seeing color and confetti shapes floating and fluxible! Even some asemic wording appears..."or taking costs"...or "or taking posts"? And I placed it against the light to emphasize the patterns…

Another sucessful Conceptual Work from Marie In Japan.

Most of the time we think of books as modular entities. Neat pages, filled with images and text.  Legible text,  a language system encased.   When one is confronted with shadow writing, it needs another sort of book then, not so?…

I received this Mona Lisa today from "E". Finally a Mona Lisa I like.

This made me wonder about Fluxus shoes and Fluxus legs.