June 2013 Blog Posts (207)

Look close, now look really close.  There are two arms on the right and three arms on the left.  Could there really be people like that in Germany?  Toc Tac has titled this one: Getting ready for summer.  Very fun.

Thank you Tic Tac, it is a real fly by hip hop…

The thank you is a book in its own.  The bag starts here:

The story will make you cry.

The best is yet to come: Thank…

Well, here goes! First day as IUOMA member. Looking forward to sending/receiving some beautiful art. :)

Don't ask me why, but I always think of "Susans" as these sweet ladies who go out and have tea & cookies at 3pm and have conversations some what like this one: "Would you like another cookie dear?", "Oh no I couldn't, one cookie is outrageous already" , "So what did you do yesterday?" , "I made some mail art to send to Dean" , "Lovely, Lovely, do you think we could see it?"  "Well of course, here it is:"…

Non, na, nien & no, this is not the title that Svenja give this piece of art.  I took it upon myself to name it for her.  It was nearly named; "My French Lesson".  If this doesn't make you smile, I don't know what would.

Thank you Svenja.  I have had this one in front of me for a few days now and it always makes me laugh.  Also because it reminds me of a girl…

At first glance I thought this might have been an "E".  But no, it turned out to be a Val in Holland.  His style surely changes when he is in Holland.  It might be the poppies?

Signed Jim & Val in Amsterdam.  At first it took me awhile, who is Jim?   But what about Suus?   I though he met up with Suus.…

(I thought that title would make you look at this!)

Thanks to....

* Nico van Hoorn, for his postcards, one of which contains the instruction: 'Destroy this work and return it to...'. I'm still trying to work that one out, but will send a card or something back to Nico anyway

* Christine Jones, for her postcards and the Flood article. One of the cards, made by her friend Tricia Smout, a beautiful work of art, says "It is never too late to be what you might have been".…

At the end of 2012 Magwood sent a little folded boekie of recent drawings with collage elements: 

Her portrayals are usually immediate and often poignant. These works plus the note she enclosed are both. All of her work is unfailingly expressive and…

Ruud's painted envelopes are so alive; I'd like to see a huge group of them amassed one day. They talk: 

This arrived last October, and contained the latest of Ruud's IUOMA materials, which I always enjoy seeing. Special note to Dean: Sometimes Ruud's materials contain requests for your latest stamps or other IUOMA statements or decorations you may have created.…

This is belated, as most recent blogs have been and many to come will be:

There is so much to think about here. Pasadena (where Stan Askew lives)--a place I never reached because I got off the train in Santa Fe. Money is well represented on this card--pennies, a nickel, a ten-dollar bill. And dice, which maybe mind-traveled from Vegas, one can never be sure. Some things…

Kat has been active in Guido Vermeulen's great group this year that celebrates birthdays: IUOMA, loved ones, composers and other artists...i.e., anyone and anything you want.

Johns always catches my attention, because of his complicated relationship with my man Robert Rauschenberg and because he is Jasper Johns, whose work is never dull and much studied. Katerina sent…

My first ever Mail Art from Ruud.  But it looks like more work.  Does everyone but me have rubber stamps?

Thank you Ruud

Well it looks like we missed Bob's Birthday.  Too bad as we could have sat around the camp fire singing Woody Guthrie songs.  Led Zepplin rules!

It was on the 24th of May that Bob Dylan turned a ripe old age of 72.…

I know, I know, sometimes tourist and non-Mail Artists can not see the wood through the trees.

So the tourist didn't see the big fish on the right.  However what you don't see is that Elvis is standing on a small island on the left waving hello.  It surely is a strange world.…

I receive mail art from MomKat

Mail-art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

June 2, 2012 - Not since the glory days of the Church of the Subgenius has so much network effort on the part of numerous individuals gone into the…