July 2012 Blog Posts (233)

The hood is up and the bar codes are raring to go.  You'll either love this one or you'll hate it.  It's half & half !

Thank you Nancy, I love it.

In Paris, only down the street for me resides a Mail Artist that keeps me on my toes.  Within Paris, if you send Mail Art  before 6pm, the other person will have it the next morning.

     Ana has recently sent me two pieces that had me running back to old art books.  The first is her own version of a work of art by Marcel Duchamps first conceived in 1919.  (Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa onto which Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil.) 

     The name of the piece,…

Even the hot spots of Trinidad & Tobago can not stop Vizma from making Mail Art.  Of course her luggage tags and places to go helped.

And she is still staying in touch with the latest events of Wimbledon.  Poor Andy let us all down.…

Been moving, so sorry if I've been late to reply. My new address is:

3720 N. Pennsylvania

Apt. 10

Indianapolis, IN 46205

I received five pieces of stellar work. First, Suus in Mokum sent me one of her musical watercolors. Alas, the luminous quality of the ink she used isn’t readily apparent in this scan but trust me the inks are opalescent. I believe this is an abstract but you never can be sure these days. Like if I zoomed out from earth just beyond the depleted ozone layer would I see the pattern? Maybe but you don’t have to squint to feel the organic animalosity (like that word, Suus?) It’s very Rousseau…

Now that we have that impression (true or not), here is a card gratefully received from Carina last month: 

The written side explains the personal exclamations--all due to Erni's influence on Carina, of course, and possibly many others…

This lovely piece was drawn by Lesley while at the Ammazulu African Palace.  The colors are fantastic together and a wash of white produced bubbles to create a wonderful texture. Another element up in the left corner are some leaves added with a tape tsf method.  Brings your eye up to the top of the sketch so you can travel down again *!*

Thank you so much Lesley…

Another envelop stuffed with MailArt, from StripyGoose and from Signor Moreno. For the Add 'n Pass project. Thanks to Erni we now know more about the Mysterious Signor Morena. He's not a member of IUOMA, but an enthousiastic Mail Artist in his own right.

StripyGoose sends me a paint-stamp made by Val, another lotto-thing (my second chance to win a fortune) and a…

                                                    It will be flying toward its receiver!

My current place of employment is PSH. My next project is to document and thank all of the wonderful mail artists out there. Blogging is a bit of a fear of mine. But I shall give it a try. Tomorrow.

A good reminder of how I once said that I would never fly in or out of London's Heathrow airport again for the rest of my life.  Very funny this one, but then all UK newspapers are funny.  Even the serious ones.

And with London 2012 coming in two week, all of the world's eyes will be looking at Sarah's Mail Art!  Thank you…

Arm in arm art will travel through time.  (Well it sounded good at the time.)

Not sure where to go from here?  Thank you Mail Art Martha

Kerri, has the colors and the style.

And the text to follow.

And there it is in all it's glory. Thank you…

"Traveling Trashpo Automated Miracle Trash Talk Generator" by IUOMA member Not Hi Ng (San Pablo, California, USA)

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new art received, we've received 21 submission since we opened the call for artwork!

Ah, homework. Even in the summer. Still, it's refreshing to be able to take one's fate into one's own hands and I am eager to begin filling in the missing bits.

I have questions though. Many. For example, where do I read this amended fortune out? In the…

I don't know who sent this great postcard - is it David Stafford again? No, it's not his handwriting and no drawings. Look at the reverse side: 

There is a name "Wiley Coyote" on the right fringe, which isn't in the…