July 2011 Blog Posts (300)

Mail-art by IUOMA member Matt Stolte (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)

July 7, 2011 - Matt Stolte is an accomplished visual poet and excellent mail-art correspondent who is enlarging my archive with some very interesting work. The…

Sent to Mail Artist Carl Cryptic (Richmond, Califórnia, USA)

{Acrylic and collage on cut cardboard ; 19.5x13cm; 2011}

For a better view of the Mail Art visit the link below:

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I rec'd this from I'm a Superhero. My blog posts did not work for a long time, now all of a sudden it has started working again......I'm Back!

I know this is not strictly a Heart Matter, but thin skin IS a matter of the heart. And I'm with Marie here - living with Rhino's for real - the people AND the animal kind - MAN it can be bitter!!

Shredded skin, thats what happens in sensitive cases - so why cant people just treat as "Fragile Handle with Care" more often?   The note from Marie reads " A case sensitive…

Mail-art by IUOMA members Angie & Snooker the Amazing Haptic Mail-Art Dog (Port Washington, Wisconsin, USA)

July 6, 2011 - There was a minor glitch - overblown! - about mail-art lost & found under my car seat in the…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)

July 4, 2011 - Cheryl Penn and I are working on a collaborative mail-art book using a single verb as chapter themes. When we're done, every letter of the alphabet will be covered.…

David always makes me laugh when I see his mail, this is a beauty! David asks me to keep this in a safe place in case the art police ever come to check that I have proof of David's artisticness.... I shall surely keep this safe, I love it! Love your Artists Proof print of the Bad Teeth Demons, there are lots of those around here. And no I dont think your blobs are asemic (maybe OTHERS will)…

Another exciting envelope on Friday, from Carl with a sheet of his Triangle Spiders.... lucky I am not arachnophobic! Thanks Carl, I shall use these stamps when I send you something soon..

This bulging packet arrived on Friday. Inside are lots of papers, stencils, pages and stickers.....methinks I have to make some mail for Sherri using her exciting pages and papers. Thankyou Sherri! What a treat.…

I sat with this gift a long time last night.  I realized how much Heart Matters to Lisa  (Skybridge Studios). It matters a lot. How could I tell?  It was the nature of the heart that put together a book for a person she does not know - the care-filled making, the giving of mail art which she has received and now passed on to me, and the heart choices that accompany her work. A beautiful book in a box labelled "National Society of Daughters of the  American Revolution". And you've just…

"Skunk Chunks" mail-art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

July 5, 2011 - Setting a record price for work by legendary Roadkill mail-artist Diane Keys, Dark wall - a New York collector - paid $1.99 for…