All Blog Posts Tagged 'Ruud' (109)

Here it ia...a very colorful , sponge-print envelope from Ruud,

like the ones I saw in his art space photo! (a fluXus buck, too!)

Very rich with texture of the printing.…

Fantastic mirror stamped envelope from Ruud arrived today.

In memory of Rain Rien Nevermind...and "copyleft".

Also a fantastic "30 years" for the TAM archives of rubber stamps:…

Just thinking about what it is all about :-)…

An envelope with multi-stampings from Ruud arrived in Greece

Always intrigued by the many "Words of Wisdom" stamped around: Keep smiling!

And how fantastic to have the Dutch Post accept an artistamp as real postage!

Inside…

with the mail today a special parcel..... What could it be?

It reads "t.a.v. Findings dpt.", and on the backside it indicates that it is a Ruud finding:

So guess what Heleen de Vaan has found for me and sent by traditional…

My first ever Mail Art from Ruud.  But it looks like more work.  Does everyone but me have rubber stamps?

Thank you Ruud

Well, Erni Bär sent me a set of sponges, and I promissed to stamp with them. Here is how that goes.

First you need to prepare the sponges for the formats you want to stamp. These sponges are tough to cut, so I needed an industrial siccors to get that done. The first letters of Erni Bär to start with.…

Always a happy surprise to see a painted envelope in the mailbox from Ruud!

So rich in colors and buttery texture of the paint.

Inside, full of goodies:

HOPE and PROGRESS and much more with Ruud's portraits! What fun!…

The world will not end tomorrow 

because we need to celebrate all the New Year 2013

for IUOMA 25 years! 

Some great pieces here, Ruud,

thank you very much,…

BEST WISHES ON THE OTHER HAND



The long announced letter finally arrived on Dec. 5th.

Mijnheer Ruud Janssen has sent nice things and written nice words.…

I was just having a little internal mail art crisis of faith - thinking about what crazy stuff I got myself into here, sending absolutely ridiculous things through the post. Do you ever get that? And then I found this letter from Ruud in my mailbox, with sheets to send in with samples of rubber stamps for his archive.  I have not sent anything to Ruud yet, waiting for the right…

OPA! Welcome to Australia!

Oh, I am sooo there, Vizma...ya got summer, yes? 

nice envelope...fun stampings

It is a grey ugly rainy winter day in Greece (first day of its kind :-) …

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…

Great mail from Erni Bär (Germany) last week. He sent me a typical envelope with his portrait on it and the envelope itself had a special size.......…

After returning from Germany I found this E in the P.O. Box. A surprise and gift from E in France. It is now part of the TAM-Archive. Thanks so much E!…

Well, exactly 50 grams went into this painted envelope for lancillotto. He returned some of the stampsheets and since he produces a lot os stmps he got this envelope filled with new sheets, some cards and a little surprise...

A card from Picasso Gaglione (Chicago - USA) with on it Alison Knowles, Darlene Domel and Myself. A performance we did in April 2010 at the Stendhal Gallery in New York Ciry. He took this photo. Very nice to see these memories back in the mail with the funny rubberstamp attached to it.

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some new rubber from E in France arrived. I already printed it onto some envelopes that will go out next weeks....…

Heleen de Vaan sent me this envelope with the lovely IUOMA rubberstamp in it. Thanks so much. What I do with a gift like that? Use it on all the new envelopes that go out connected to the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and the first one goes out to Heleen:

Thanks…

I like this zippy request/order to the post office: ...and love the painted envelope itself. Inside were recent IUOMA materials. Thank you so much, Ruud, your MA is always a treat! …