Mary Anne's Blog – August 2019 Archive (3)
a brief but pointless rant against the system
Just returned from this week's traumatic trip to the Post Office.
There seems to always be a tussle between me and some of the staff about stamps and such. As soon as the cost of postage reaches a certain level, they use a label instead of stamps. Even though the Royal Mail churns out dozens of expensive new stamps, month after month, the post offices never use them, so I have to watch as my poor attempts at a decorative envelope is thoroughly disfigured.
Some do try their best…
ContinueAdded by Mary Anne on August 29, 2019 at 3:32pm — 11 Comments
Blog the second: serendipity perhaps . . .
I've been working hard on a new collage. I covered a sheet of paper with random pieces of magazine, no real thought, just following the fancy. I had three copies of the same issue of a supermarket give-away and, for some reason that I will probably never fully understand, a picture of a humble bath-brush caught both my eye and imagination. I tore them out, halved each in a different way, then added them to the work in hand; and that was as far as it went. The muse left me and my creation…
ContinueZalop!
Does anyone else remember Rudd's search for new Fluxus words or the great Zalop! project?
I came across this advert. today and it reminded me . . .
Added by Mary Anne on August 10, 2019 at 11:00am — 22 Comments
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