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ahoy and yoha!

exciting communique from the Official Able Submariner and Envelopemaker of DadaLand!

the ably-made envelope carefully unfolds into

a) paper boat

b) intriguing party hat

c) rabbit

d) duck…

along with a postcard and some 'daDahead' stamps, Juan sends the Dada-Oracle, which i will be sure to consult when there is no other appropriate oblique strategy... for now, i like wondering what's inside of those flirty little envelopes. muchas…

"back of beyond"

which arrived, fittingly, in a companion-piece envelope --

thank you; i love the way you put things…

summertime symphony from my friend in Vilnius, arriving in a not-so-plain-brown-wrapper (apparently there is a McDonald's there...?). among other goodies:

and let's not forget the two too cool blue…

love these little gems!

they help me get somewhere else 

thank you Laura Hughes*

even better than boomerang mail,

that rare opportunity provided by

an image of the recipient

engage(d) with the sender's scraps...

and yes Mail Art helps me to stay afloat.

thanks much for the dispatches from the queendom, Martha; see you in the mail…

delightful collage work from Tunbridge Wells.

also included, these three assemblage-ATCs:

thank you Ruth; see you in the mail…

i'm thinking of these three smiling ladies as Savage, Romantic, and Revolutionary.

merci JeanFi.

these are some pretty excited fish! 

but wait! there's more -- so much more:

gracias por…

Sonia sends a poem, along with a double-faced card:

on one side, handpainted topographical image (perhaps the coastline on the Sea of Green?);

on the other, repurposed red asemic and a bottomless Mikel Untzilla ];-)

muchas…

interesting to learn that American writer Julien Green was the first foreign-born member of the Academie Francaise. just more proof of how educational Mail Art is. thanks for the inspiration, Virgo - and, of course, that colorful envelope --…

check out these darling collage squares -

opening this packet made me feel like a kid in a candy store ]:-)

and what about all those stamps on the envelope!…

Hooray! Hooray!

Ticket! Ticket!

¡Boleto! ¡Boleto!  these sheets of stamps are always amazing; Series 11 does not disappoint!…

Fleur made this lovely collage incorporating mosaic motif from the Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland); looks like a pretty cool place - "Text Me", their next expo, opens on July 14, so if you're nearby check it out. …

love the variety of textures and asemia on this collage card --

-- which arrived with a whole lotta stamps and papernalia - -

and look who's on the envelope! …

assorted space age material including essential eclipse equipment and an orange body in suspended animation.

[notice the considerate notice that acknowledges Mark's quiet departure from IUOMA, upper right]

so much stuff!

note the DadaLand eastern egg [reproduction] set atop the Graf Zeppelin stamps (lower left). all this stuff came with a handy Fluxus Imperial Corporate Identification Manual, full of easy-to-use protocols for almost every possible situation:…

what a coincidence! i never minded being called weird, but i just recently learned that it's also an acronym --

for: Western Educated Industrial Rich Democratic --

which changes things a little for me. now, i'd mind if someone said i had a weird bias (yeah, that's a thing). 

still, i believe 'Debra,…

ever an evangelist for postal practices, Jack performs an act of artistic resurrection, sending out a meta-postcard (or a post-metacard?) of a fallen/stray envelope.

sounds like the subject in question was a found object, encountered/photographed during a walk around Olympia.

i can imagine a huge house of cards made with multiple…

from Bordeaux comes a postcard-size sous-vide tableau. if i put it in boiling water, will a canvas emerge?

];-) merci Helene!