Zack's Blog – May 2026 Archive (21)

this place looks magical; Jason is an escape artist 

two very pleasing orthogonal assemblages from Winston Salem - 

and a smattering (?) of black-and-white life-and-death stickers - …

things are dripping up

these colors summon up memories of 'spin art' booths at a childhood boardwalk. thank you…

little images with big themes: life in the midst of death; peace, and war. gracias Sabela - sending healing energy in your direction (and some mail too, ok?). courage!

this postcard gets right to the point. thanks Sarah - see you in the mail soon!

on this cleverly painted envelope, the mysterious Laure/Aude has grafted a snake's head onto a giraffe.

inside, a bird whose name appears to be untranslatable...

merci Mme.…

from the Crevicist Research Institute: the artistic academanic study that everyone's been waiting for. you may think nothing of it all, but remember: nothing lasts forever. here's some sweet nothings i whispered to non -…

and neither did Dr. Zack ha ha ha 

oh i concur IUOMA rocks!

thanks Medwolf - see you in the mail…

not sure if that's Peter on the right or the left... 

];-)

great stamping!

gems! j'aime! 

great to see you in the mailbox again

i'm traveling, thanks to these two hallucinatory landscapes.

they arrived in a window envelope turned inside out (!) ...

...along with a Flux buck and assorted stamps-…

don't be fooled: this very large 'boat' envelope arrived via air mail 

lots of cool stamps in addition to the artwork. inside ->

i've really been enjoying this multi-layered mandala with encroaching…

or maybe i should say meta-mail art?

no, there’s nothing wrong with your computer - i think this postcard was (very cleverly) engineered to create a digital mise en abyme here at IUOMA.

i’m kind of embarrassed that Marcel has already published my snail mail acknowledgement for this mail (red faced…

(clockwise) Victorian Maid-Waitress; Monkey V (‘Open your eyes in the arms of her mother. He is sure’); Winter (‘cold mornings / orange afternoons, lemon sun’); Farm Universe.

gracias por todos mi…

luckily Bovino and Noem are in the rear view mirror. still, unsure if ICE under Mullin and Homan will be any more humane… summer is coming; will ICE melt or has the climate changed too much?

very cool boomerang piece - i’ve been interpolated into someone else’s correspondence and vice versa.

and yeah, i gotta admit - i do think smiles are contagious, so thanks Ed. 

two fantastic ATCs - satisfyingly simple/simply satisfying;…

postcards from French religious sites; nice foundations for future alterations. merci Madisyn

another card documenting the many murals of Oakland - merci pour ces fleurs, Fleur

that’s the back of the envelope on the left. the Little Critters TLP features some pretty intricate black and white artwork -

CMB also sends along a very sweet “seasonal” score for…