All Blog Posts Tagged 'Journal' (12)

On January 28, 2022 Robin J from Arlington, TX sent in pages 71 through 76 of our Wreck This Journal project!  She also added prints and a cool envelope!  Check them out:

This is the collage she made…

Please accept my apologies for the recent slow down in my documentation of our WTJ (by US Postal Mail!) collaborative art project.  I've got a lot of very awesome art from a number of super cool, fun artists to share with everyone!  Today I'm sharing the groovy art of SaraMarie Bottaro!

Pages 19 - 23 were mailed back to Minneapolis on January 19th, 2022 wrapped like the gift they are!…

David and Star McCoy sent back gloriously "wrecked" journal pages from St. Cloud, MN!  They're bright, playful, fun and I love them!  David took these first several pages and had at them, scroll down and you'll find Star's artistic work follows.  At the bottom of this blog I'll give you a look at the coolio envelope their art arrived in!

This…

Richard Canard's Wreck This Journal (by US Postal Mail!) pages arrived safely back in Minneapolis!  He had pages 44 through 49 and struck a very independent, free thinking pose befitting of a mail artist, in my opinion!  When the Journal asked him for his grocery list he asked "Why?", and why indeed!  We cannot simply bow, out of habit, to every…

Amy Kiessling's contribution to the Wreck This Journal (by US Postal Mail!) arrived this week and it's wild, energetic, bright, creative and cool!

On page 50 she uses staples, string, 4 colors of washi tape, tiny golden arrow tape, domestic mail labels with thick black marker graffiti, a hole punch and (hand carved?) rubber stamps of a spiral,…

Within 24 hours of mailing his contribution to the Wreck This Journal collaborative art project from Washington, it arrived at the Gnome Home in Minneapolis!  Photos of the envelope and postmarks at the end of this blog should convince even the most suspicious minds that 24 hour delivery has indeed occurred!

As you look at his first…

The second set of pages have found their way back to Minneapolis and are from Melanie Reed!

(And I'm floored!)

I LOVE what Melanie did to them, turning them into a well written story and illustrating it was so unique and original and COOL.  I admire her idea on how to…

Exhibit D (AKA Debra) from Boise, Idaho mailed in the first contributions for our "Wreck this Journal (By US Postal Mail!" mail art project!

Here is the back cover that she removed from her own copy of Wreck This Journal, which instructs the artist to tape…

Mary Grellner sends lots in a star-struck envelope :-)

Her favorite bike photo...

Her favorite doggie:…

Mary Grellner sent a "royal" envelope ...

with the help of her doggie it seems :-)

and with fairies! Plus this…