October 2016 Blog Posts (204)

Mail art by IUOMA member Gu (aka Gina Ulgen) (Norwich, Norfolk, UK)…

With only thirteen days to go, did I say thirteen?  You better start putting on your thinking cap now. Thirteen is the number for this mail art.…

Hello.

For some reason I thought it would be neat to see if any of my friends had saved all of the items I've sent them over the years. One friend not only showed me what I'd sent her, but filmed it. I decided to put all of this together into blog post. I have a few comments on my blog...…

Well, first a FAB postage stamp on the envelope..

and then ALL these for sticking on my mail art!

Fantastic,…

"Human Colonies in Space"...Full color documentation  arrived from Sinasi Gunes,

A few pages:…

   A nice surprise from Eva Amity. Thank you! Sometimes in the night the bird start singing. What a robin knows and wants to share ? :) …

   A nice stamp from Richard, received quite long ago. Thank you ! İt's always a pleasure to have one of your works. …

Thank you Thom, İ received it quite long ago but didn't have the opportunity to publish it.

Very nice drawings, water colored and an amazing envelope. …

Mail art by Artista Daily (Allen Park, Michigan, USA)

October 17, 2016 - Initially, I predicted the Karnival of Trash would identify a new generation of Trashpoets. With so much innovative work from those who have already…

This month I have been working on a series of abstract images exploring the effect absence has on intimate relationships.  By arranging shapes in space, I have tried to show how at times we feel close to others, and at other times, how distant we feel, regardless of physical presence or…

A landmark edition,#100!

and the participants:

from Vizma:…

Fluttering back to Greece...

Ok, Finnbadger, I was really SURPRISED!

This Trashpo DADA baggie boekie has crossed the Big Pond many times:…

The wise owls know it all :-)

Circles..and BLUE, too!

Also this fella, from Oregon:…

It arrived in a large envelope...

and within there were two postcards...which I might "alter" and send out:…

Riddle: What has scales, is weighed on a scale, and on a scale of one-to-ten ranks as a twelve?

Why that would be Allison Baker's first mail art piece to me! Allison didn't hold back at all in testing the limitations of the post office's mailing parameters for dimension, size, or shape. This fishy-shaped…

A most unusual piece of mail art arrived recently from the Netherlands...

Although the envelope is constructed with a traditional "sealing flap" (see picture directly above), there were instructions on the…