Zack's Blog – September 2023 Archive (21)

YES! YES! the eternal rubber network ]:-)

my stamp arrived about a month ago, but i'm just getting around to posting about it now.

so happy to be part of this amazing project! i've already made some pretty cool stickers --…

wowza - another jam packed envelope that raises lots of questions - 

have i been canceled? cat(flux)fished? and have i seen this woman? 

(she looks pretty blissed out; one has to wonder exactly what kind of fungi she's been working with...)

but wait -- there's more!…

mutually assured destruction/the vicious cycle of violence -

on a repurposed paper plate.

merci Dean; hope you are safe/well.

the bluebird of happiness weirdness pays a visit!

if you connect the dots, your path will become clear; always looking up.

meanwhile, the background just keeps getting hotter.

[FYI, Debra and i have teamed up to monitor the weird frontier, hoping to outperform the amazing…

'Sketchbook Zine 3' arrived; not quite a pop-up book, but some finished little sketches fell out from between the pages. adorable.

and: check out this 'Black Adder' stamp; pretty hip IMHO

thanks Laura -…

'a fresh wave of music'

the back of this copper-edged gel-plate-printed (and stamped) card features an [endangered] mexican gray wolf staring hungrily at some unsuspecting rabbits... all together it's kind of like dream interpretation.

nice work! thank you James - see you in the…

keep your eye on the ball, eh? danke Jimmy; see you in the mail!

no caption necessary

recent news from the Queendom of Retailia! bees on the roses, a cat hugging a tree, and Foldi #24 all about Hundertwasser and Gaia - an enchanting assortment; thanks so much!

not only does Carien crack me up (again), but she also points me toward the work of (disappeared) Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, previously unknown to me. hartstikke bedankt!

opening this envelope was like looking into a kaleidoscope!

among other Mail Art omens, a Screamin' Sicilian moustache - just in time for Halloween! ]:-)

and a neat little handmade bookie entitled "A Naptime Story - for Grownups".

note the original artwork on that page of stamps, by Cameron Terhune.

also included, a new coloring…

another one of those cool double-sided constructions of interpenetrating worlds -

and some works in paint and marker -…

announcement for an Aug-Sept expo @ Alfinete Galeria (Brasilia); hope the show went well!

a charming ATC from Fleur's 'In the Deep Sea' series - is that a FluxFish i spy? - and the photographed art is not from the streets of Oakland (as usual) but rather Santa Barbara. it's nice to get out of town sometimes, right?

thanks…

hmmm... i remember writing a paper on the Holland Tunnel as a liminal space back in my NYU days last century ];-)

this seemingly simple card uses as its background poetry by Adam Cornford, from the City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology; a postal…

jam packed with clever --

(although i think it's more like an isthmus... you know, a neoisthmus)

lots of big format pieces --…

a two-dimensional treasure chest, with lots of collages made and to-be-made.

bonus items include the Library of Congress and Love's Old Sweet Song ]:-)

in terms of how to be, i do my part, but sometimes ordinariness is simply thrust upon us...

thanks Karen for all this shimmery…

sometime during the summer, Franny passed along a colorful Add-and-Pass that appears to have originated from Flux Fishonista Melissa Wand.

in all honesty, these A&P things sometimes take me a while...

so if you'd like to see this in your mailbox, there's a good chance it's even now still floating around on my desktop; let me…

Lady Alice

White Tie

False Flag

[ATCs]

could that be Melania peeking out through her fingers?

and some paint chip poetry (hilarious)

the envelope features lovely free art, too -…

the Museum of Mail Art has sent me 2 ATCS + 1 carte postale.

before:

after:

and what a fantastic postage stamp --…