August 2016 Blog Posts (157)

Dean, Artist in Seine, is a master of 3D and recycling Art. This time I found this piece of teared mail art in my mailbox. 

The other side showed that part of this piece must has been a tissue box, according to the fresh clean tissues:…

Mail art by IUOMA member Jude Weirmeir (San Diego, California, USA)

August 7, 2016 - This edition of Jude Weirmeir’s endlessly interesting and innovative performance score series, Subscription Opus, is seasoned to…

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Thanks for the invite, Uli...

in the mail soon to you soon.…

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Watercolor image with asemic writing...

lovely!

Always good to see you in-the-mail,…

A wonderful surprise to find this in my mailbox recently. One of my favourite pieces of mail. I love how the envelope is painted to emulate an air mail envelope. Inside things were just as wondrous with these fantastic artistamps. …

Latest correspondence from MomKat. I actually LOVE that Athena rubber stamp...perfect for Kat in her Grecian haven/heaven.  Great wide-size wash tape, too...it's always good to spread a little "L-O-V-E" around!

This piece also includes some selvage/selvege...a new vocabulary word for me that Kat recently helped decipher and add to my noggin's…

Well, I admit it... I was completely jealous of a piece of mail art that friend Carina Granlund received recently. But there wasn't any need to be jealous...because I was lucky enough to get my very…

Hmmm... There's a theme here between the wash tape on Amy's envelope and her fabulous quilted piece inside. I had to double check my calendar to make sure it wasn't time for Halloween greetings!

But, no... the motif of bones and skulls were a pervasive theme in a historical context. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were full of recurrent…

A double take on the double Land O Lakes.  It's suppose to be…

Mail art by IUOMA member Henry Denander (Stockholm, Sweden)

August 5, 2016 - Henry Denander is a network legend often associated with Sweden, but he sent me these stamps from Greece in June of 2016. While Henry Miller is…

Back to the 60's with the hats from Mars! And wonderful postage stamps--especially love the Bobby Kennedy stamp. Thanks Mars!

Aine Holder actually send me two envelopes full of mail art this week. The envelope above, wonderful hand-drawn and colored jellyfish scene, contained a ton of different sticky notes. The rest of the art pictured came in the envelope pictured below, the one covered with dragonflies. The circle on top right is from Aine's "Circle of Friends" --on the back it a bunch of great…

I've gotten so much fabulous Mail Art recently. Big card on the left is from Lynne Gurnee, Just lovely images. ATC from William is top right, and Beautiful card from Mercedes La Marquesa bottom right. This is my first piece from La Marquesa and I really appreciate it. Thanks…