November 2012 Blog Posts (232)

Super piece Jeanne *!*  Love the design and colors...that old car photo is sooooo coooool ....thank you...

Some might recognize the part of their address in this batch of outgoing mail-art....

A new friend, Edna, sent me this great Fiber and paint mail art piece...the texture is fantastic from the piece of lace to the corrugated cardboard... 

Thank you Edna....I have something on it's way to you *!*

Just like magic, Fleur's delicious photo arrived on my birthday!!! What a treat...

Thank you Fleur *!*

“Shotpo” by Ficus strangulensis (West Virginia, USA) using a visual poem by Empress Marie Antonette aka Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan)

November 10, 2012 - The MinXus-Lynxus Shooting Gallery Project has been completed with the…

I'm very glad that there in IUOMA is such great and optimistic mailartist as she, especially if we speak in common language and we have common origin - latvian.

And now ... some words especially to you, Vizma! : Es jau sen esmu vēlējusies Tev atsūtīt atbildi, bet esmu bijusi šo laiku aizņemta ar studijām, kā arī - esmu ļoti lēns artists.:) Man vajag ilgu laiku, lai izdomātu ko un kā sūtīt konkrētam cilvēkam, jo parasti cenšos pieskaņot kautko attiecīgajai personai un savam…

Any time a woman stands with her hands on her hips while she's talking, well, you know she means business. The buffalo is all ears, I'm sure. Love those stamps, especially the Hermes stamp!

As you can see, this mail art is anything but square. Merci…

From Cheryl Penn, South Africa. So colourful, just fantastic!

Two great works from Ana Marta Austin, Brasil. Graphic work on sheet with phone numbers is printed not original, but I adore it…

Thank you all the fantastic mailartists!

There is a lot of work that I have received lately, but I have not had time to show them. I will try to catch up.

This is first - little booklet from Mister Lestaret or Christopher Skinner. His fantastic asemic writings and ephemeras has always fascinated me and I'm so lucky that something from him is now in my collection…

Because I got the question I had to do some digging in the archive, As it turns out I found the starting month back in one of my own publications that I wrote in 1990:

This booklet was published in 1990 to document my first 10 years in Mail-Art. I still have the originals here. In it I wrote about the start of the IUOMA. It turns out to be AUGUST 1988. Later in…

I have just mailed off my first contribution to Sheryl Penn's collaborative artists book, 27 x 2 pages. I am not 100% sure of the result. It is hard to imagine what it will look like as part of a book. It would have been easier to make single cards.

a very beautifully conceived and executed mail art card from Thom...I love how Thom takes extra care in his designs..hugs!…

     Janine Weiss send me a very nice birthday card, but my birthday is not until January. But I always say; better early then never. I now sadly see that Janine Weiss has left IUOMA so we may never know why she sent it early.

      It will have to go down in history as one of those unsolved mysteries.  Like Stonehenge, or why spaghetti breaks in 3 pieces when you bend it.…

A sweet little card from Fleur Helsingor pointing me gently in the right direction. Thank you Fleur, I will follow the signs!

This card  by Guido took me by surprise -  I did not expect another mailing so soon! Both Britain and India are very close to my heart, so I really appreciate the tension and humour in this collage of Victorian ladies and Indian dancer . The card is appropriately called "Culture Shock". Makes me crack up up every time I look at…

I am pleased to say that I received a card from the Erni Bär Fanshop, and the shocking news from Hamburg that Erni is willing to act as an organ donor, donating his brain. This brightened up a gloomy November day in my…

A Jute-sack?  In my day we use to call them gunny sacks.  And a pick up wasn't a candy bar!  How things have changed in the art world!

Well when I was a child, we use to have a sack like this to store the potatoes.  So as a performance piece I ran out to the market and purchased some very nice potatoes.  I then put the potatoes in the sack, and that is where I…

Funny Halloween card from Alicia.  And yes, funny enough those chaps really do look like Erni & Val.  Toast?  Here's to you!   Hic up

Thank you very much Alicia. 

I was delighted to get another little boring, blank, white envelope from Suus. Inside a little colourful card from her and a wonderful surprise of a postcard project from Tofu The project involves a mail artist filling in a segment of the card. I was kindly given layer five to do - the last layer. It was a lot of fun and…

Wow, E has energy and application!  From the yellowed book page transformed into visual poetry to the stamps on the envelope with their tactile…