October 2011 Blog Posts (229)

ATCs From Lesley Magwood Fraser

Fabulous ATCs from Lesley! Thank you!

Added by Karen Champlin on October 11, 2011 at 5:58pm — 2 Comments

Art From Nancy Bell Scott

A fantastic piece from Nancy! Thank you!

Added by Karen Champlin on October 11, 2011 at 5:50pm — 3 Comments

This great piece arrived from TOrma Cauli. I love the combination of the very modern digital background and the sort of primitive trashpo. All this world class trash just reminds me of how similar life is no matter where we live. I always imagine other countries being so different, but Torma using pieces of a flier most likely advertising some service shows that we all behave the… Continue

Added by DKeys on October 11, 2011 at 2:14pm — 3 Comments

Moontrash from Lisa Iversen

This piece arrived in a beautiful box. She says she found this crushed can tucked inside a tree. I think she must have sanded this down to get the sheen on it that does make it look lunar. It's mounted on a 5 by 7 or so posterboard and looks to be leaping out. I really love this thank you sooo much Lisa! very elegant trashpo--so classy I think it's more of… Continue

Added by DKeys on October 11, 2011 at 2:11pm — 45 Comments

Love vs. the ego from Richard Canard

a departure for Richard who has always sent me text up until now. But it's just as thought provoking. I take this as the buddhist sense of death to the ego

Added by DKeys on October 11, 2011 at 2:08pm — 1 Comment

The World is a Town - GOTIJ (why not!) Thom (USA) , ROB (Australia), Guido Vermeulen (Belgium) and Bernd (Belgium)

I think Thom is a Keeper of Words. He guards the gate to their destruction. Most of you who know Thom know that he is a Lexical logophile. At the pen of Thom these separate units become flowing sentences that build to a river of beauty. The World is a Town is no different. …

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Added by cheryl penn on October 11, 2011 at 11:35am — 17 Comments

JE TE SALUE PLANCHE DE SALUT

JE TE SALUE

PLANCHE DE SALUT

Added by yves maraux on October 11, 2011 at 11:03am — No Comments

Poems from the Past - from Nancy Bell Scott

Recently there have been several great blogs about mail art related to Memories and Memory. The piece that Nancy is sending me breathes the same air of Reminiscence. It comes with a wonderful letter, relating sweet childhood memories, freewheeling days at her grandparents' farmhouse. A child's universe, a lost world, but how come ever so present in the adults…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on October 11, 2011 at 10:16am — 11 Comments

WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION 2012

Works on Paper Exhibition

1st Mail Art Festival in Malaysia (2006)…

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Added by suzlee on October 11, 2011 at 4:30am — No Comments

Roland Halbritter: a dark surprise

Well, it's dark, but with a colorful (and Spanish) interruption: Still, the black by itself speaks. As if this weren't mysterious enough to receive--including the fact that I've had no previous contact with the obviously whimsical Mr Halbritter--the other side took much longer to understand:…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 2:11am — 7 Comments

Another card from Jon Foster (yay)

Very interesting mix of images:

Jon made this card apparently using one of his taping methods that have helped turn me into a big fan of his work. The ground is a postcard of an Ansel Adams photograph at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, but we see that photo only at the upper left and the bottom left and right corners. Jon contributed most of what is seen, and the… Continue

Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 1:38am — 1 Comment

WHERE THE SECRET IS HIDDEN, JOHN HELD, JR., COLLECTED ESSAYS, 1979-2011 CD/PDF NOW AVAILABLE

BANANAFISH PUBLICATIONS IS RELEASING THE CD/PDF EDITION FOR COMPUTERS, TABLETS, AND SMART PHONES. THE PLAN IS…

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Added by Mike Dickau on October 11, 2011 at 1:19am — No Comments

"Advice Dismissed" from Kerri Pullo Ryan

Beautiful piece by Kerri:

"Advice Dismissed" caught my eye when Kerri put it up with her photos, and I was delighted to find it as the first mail art she has sent me. Kerri, when she uses words, makes them melt into the rest of the art, just as the photo does. The organic, wounded red shape around the photo expresses well the ambiguity of her subject. Very nice work, Kerri, and I… Continue

Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

From JJALLTHEWAY - USA. Beautiful "365" postcard!

Added by Michalis Kotsaris on October 10, 2011 at 10:21pm — No Comments

From Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas - Brazil. Awesome print, "fusca" car!

Added by Michalis Kotsaris on October 10, 2011 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Domestic Trashpo

But wait… There’s more. Domestic mail artists have been prolific with their artwork, too, proving that Americans produce garbage just as colorful as their overseas brethren.

From Marcia Cirillo, in Texas, a treasure map to where some fantastic Trash might be located for our next trash treasure hunt…

From Michael Orr in Cornpone land (that’s…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on October 10, 2011 at 9:46pm — 8 Comments

International Trashpo

Mmm, Mmmmm, Mmm! We’ve been having fun with Lady Ga-Garbajo’s Group of Trashpo enthusiasts. And I have recently received some spectacular examples from abroad (..a WHAT??!!) I mean some friends from international locales:

From the Haptic Werewolf, Erni Bär, some vegetarian bratwurst et frites. I love how the card says “UHU,” which I’m sure is text phone lingo…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on October 10, 2011 at 9:26pm — No Comments

GOTIJ Document booklet for "Living Fast - Living Slow"

Beautiful done by Mr. Colori in Holland, and many color photos of the participating artists.

Here is John M. Bennett, Lancillotto Bellini, and others:

Another page: Rod summers and Judy Skolnick...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

GOTIJ Dean Marks destroyed mail art :-(

Look carefully. Around the Taj Mahal there is a circular glue mark. sob, sob, sob.

It's gone, it's gone...the Eiffel tower that pounced around in a bubble is gone! sob, sob, sob.

Dean and I worked together on some mail art in a little Paris Cafe. and he made this card for me.

But the postal machine monster ate the Eiffel Tower!!!

Well, happily, there…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — No Comments

GOTIJ Haptic Werewolf, large size collage AND sandpapers for sandpo!

It is called "SCREAM", but too many greens and pastoral scenes to make me scream. Great collage from Herr Haptic Eri, and a surprise treasured besides the collage:

SANDPAPER!!! Yay! and RED...look, Cheryl, look. Really RED sandpaper!

(and a few white…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

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