August 2011 Blog Posts (312)

I have been eyeing these works of Mim on IUOMA thinking how much I like them and now I have one all to myself, my first offering from Mim. The fat graphic line jags across the quiet little collage giving it a nice drawn asemic feel.... Thankyou Mim!

This card from Marni has a delicate tracery of bright acid green, with an image of a colonial looking building and drawing of flowers, it looks very tropically Malaysian! The words are from Marni's favourite author Haruki Murakami - "It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between the reality and the workings of the heart." Heart matters! Earlier this week I received another acid green work from Guido so it's been a very GREEN week...…

What can I say??? I am slowly gathering a great collection of Karen's beautiful little ATC cards, all beautifully made. This one's rich red colour is a delight! I need to display them somehow as they deserve to be seen all together..... Thankyou Karen!

My first mail art from Nancy and what a treasure! A little booklet FULL TO BURSTING with stamps,painting, and medical documents all held together with safety pins...and covered with Nancy's spidery scrawly handwriting. "Fragile" is stamped all over the Maine medical centre documents - hope that doesnt refer to our Nancy! I am very chuffed to be the owner of this great little book.... Thanks Nancy!…

When I saw Nancy's work featuring on several blogs I was hoping to receive something from her, and I didn't have to wait for a very long time, her first envelope arrived this week, lucky me.

Nancy dug up an old box full of of antique print blocks and stamps from her attic, check out her blog if you haven't seen it yet, it is very impressive. She started to use and…

I love the wonderful CAThedral!

Thanks…

Alicia sent this piece that fascinates me: The ragged edges along with the hints of rulers, punch cards, hole punch -- favored office supplies of not long ago -- make an intriguing combination. And it's all brought up to date with her wonderfully loose asemic writing.  I see punch cards because those little horizontal marks in varying rows remind me of the stacks of punch cards…

 Imagine my surprise when I found an envelope from GA in my mailbox with a familiar Hello Kitty stamp on it. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, rubbed them a little bit stronger, but it was really him, sending me mail from the Peninsula, one of the best hotels in Tokyo. The one and only Grigster was downtown, a few stops down the Yurakucho line, and he didn't tell his…

... in that I whooped and hollered, I'm so thrilled with it:

To me this is a really fine work that includes elegance, contemporaneity + history, and mystery. The red and black/brown giving the face its soft-tissue structure and expression are a bold move, one that I find very successful.  The eyes are fascinating and enigmatic -- sometimes I see them as spookily blank,…

Whether we're scorned or forgiven, the fish will still be swimming. Thanks, Guido!…