Zack's Blog – June 2024 Archive (23)

complete with (hidden) EAT ART theme!

who wants mail?

Bonzine #29 - Small Town News and a delightful cut up poem-card. the central circle implies that the latter was not made with full consciousness - surrealist? or perhaps more accurately, Searealist?

thanks Bonnie and yes let's make lots of art this…

love these Quotickets; they should be folded into the tickets we get at all those 'take a number' machines. and so cool to meet some (Correspondance Art) Ancestors; such groovy outfits.

but wait there's more! - "Dematerializing Our Alpine Lakes" appears to be some sort of collaboration between Crevicism Press and Cascadia…

envoyez des lettres indeed!

luckily i was home when this arrived; otherwise, i'm not sure how Fred le Facteur would have gotten it into our mailbox. simply charming and so artfully executed; merci beaucoup!

it's always cool when Mail Art arrives just out of the blue.

well, actually, this special tactile collage on corrugated cardboard arrived from Belgium.

thanks Francis; see you in the mail ]:-)

a meditation on American hubris (i wonder what song they are playing... "Those Were The Days", perhaps?)

William cracks me up: on the reverse side he has written 'i can't decide if i like this - or if it's just a hot mess'.

why not both?  [chuckle chuckle]

thanks dude ];-)

truly a red letter day ];-)

the eyes have it.

and then there is this illustration by Ariel Severino, along with mail art omens from the Republic van Patland.

obrigado…

that sticker-adorned brown paper envelope from Hanna contained some large ATCs - 

here you see her 'signature' Starman flanked by abstract portraits.

also included: some Mail Art Money and an assortment of clipped images (potential source material for future collage art/work) - …

'Ticket! Ticket!' series 13 (Spring 2024) arrived some time ago...

wowza - this time i received two envelopes containing eight sheets of stamps, as Jack has featured my 'submissions' on >10 stamps. i lose track of what i send to him, so it's always fun to see what resurfaces. but…

arigato Kiki for this upbeat handmade postcard from Nippon.

your stamps are lovely, and i like the variety of 'official' stamps, too - 

see you in the mail…

this striking photo was taken in Paris; i wonder if Penny is the one wearing the orange socks?

also included: a hand-painted elephant postcard from India - special!

always cool to hear and see what life…

not sure who Maria is (apparently not here on IUOMA) or how this darling collage found its way to me... ah the mysteries of Mail Art. oh, i know! - i'll send something back to her in Buenos Aires and we'll see where it goes from there…

well, a bird in the shirt is worth... wait, what?

seems like they never stop experimenting in Columbus ];-)

thanks cmb 

a lovely quartet of postcards, mostly homemade but also a classic Hopper image - 

these are blank on the reverse side, so Peter encourages me to share these, but i'm torn...

also enclosed: "Crow's Feat" by Yoshiko Yamamoto -…

ah the danger of sending collaged mail 'naked'... i'm not sure if this was damaged in the mail, or if the viewer lost their head while taking in the "One Thousand Buddha Cave" (where is that?)... the artistamp - vaguely reminiscent of the infamous green scapulars that went around a while ago - DID get partially cancelled, and that official stamp of the…

always heartwarming to see/hear about Mail Artists' meetups! i too hope to make it to Cascadia one day... cheers to you two, and thanks for documenting and sharing ]:-)

this is titled "Look Out" (but I'm looking for a frame the right size)

i'm way behind on posting - this came in quite a while ago - and check out the collaged envelope it arrived in -

(it's quite a…

tennis balls and soap bubbles intermingle in this neat neurographic art-card; it's always cool to see how folks personalize this practice. thanks Susan - see you in the mail soon!

i must admit i concur with WC - as a young person, i never understood why shoes were almost always (poor) brown, rather than some other (brilliant) color. that middle musician figure looks like a marsupial carrot. 'the poor browns' might be an interesting name for a band - oh, this could be the album…