November 2011 Blog Posts (225)

Nooo, too human are barcodes, funny card, variation on a barcode Op. 51, thank you, Dean, will send something soon. (and love your profile photo today!)

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Just got a wonderful art out of the mailbox: Urban experiment from Cheryl Penn. It is a more than usual wide card to open up. There it a town (Zalop city??) and huge letters announcing the experiment. The texture is wonderful, thick paper, as if there might be something in between the inside and outside... The edge is whiped (??) with this iconic red filament CP and Marie use…

This handsome mail art card is fantastic, I love it, along with the delightful booklets: I've seen some of Samuel's ultra-tiny fluxus and asemic books elsewhere, and coveted them.

Also enclosed is a [ ... ] cool add+pass envelope (I.D. credit: Lesley Magwood Fraser).  thank you for everything, I'm so pleased to have MA from you ~…

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Lisa sent me what she calls one of the strangest MA she has ever made: …

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I love this asemic cardboard booklet, an excellent piece. Thank you very much,…

Conceptually its quite difficult to portray the words we cant say – without being obvious.  Once again though,  Marie has succeeded in subtly expressing an idea. This time, her concept is The Words Encaged.  Those words we want to express, but never do. 

For celebrating the 3rd year on NING for IUOMA the next card is being printed right now and will start to go out next week when we are 3 years on NING.

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Sprung from the head of Zeus! Yet again. Another sterling wunderwerk from Skybridge Studios arrived yesterday. Dressed in an understated gold lame envelope festooned with vintage southwestern stamps, this four panel folding book has kind of a hayseed feeling about it. For one, SB has been pushing the envelope of their printer again: all of the text is printed on thin wafers of wood. I’m guessing mahoghany veneer but I could be dead wrong. Anyhow this rusticity is lightly echoed in the nine…

I sometimes get in the habit of blogging multiple pieces of mail art due to time constraints and volume, even though many of the works of art deserve their own independent posting. One of those amazing pieces, that I didn't want folks to miss, was a recent gift from Svenja Wahl that REALLY MADE MY DAY!!

 If you are looking at the photo of Svenja's envelope art…

If mail art came in a candy sack, I would be dragging my haul along the ground back to my lair so I could roll around in all my sweets!  As it is, I got some really SWEET mail art in celebration of All Hallow's Eve--the day that marks the thinnest veil between this world and the other where our forebears ethereally mingle. Just look at this stash:

This is truly some…

Very French on the envelope from Lesley. And what could be inside?

Beautiful art, of course...with a red beret, so reminds me of Paris! sigh.…