Jean Vengua's Blog (13)

Incoming: postcard mail art from Ty Hannigan

Thanks for the cool art in desert colors! [Note: I'm having trouble posting images! Hope this works.]

Added by Jean Vengua on January 22, 2025 at 3:30am — No Comments

Incoming mail art from Zorica Obradovic

Thank you, Zorica for the beautiful mail art and pup greeting from Serbia! Glad you protected the art for its long journey to California. I'm having some technical difficulties with posting, so if the art doesn't appear, it will when I figure this out. . .…

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Added by Jean Vengua on January 22, 2025 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

I'm back . . .

I've been "away" from IUOMA for awhile; my mind and emotions just trying to deal with life events, including the fact that California is on FIRE! While Los Angeles is far from me, the area that burned is huge, and densely populated. Closer to me is the lithium-ion battery plant [toxic] fire at Moss Landing (very near to a wildlife preserve area), which is still burning, I believe. But I have been receiving some beautiful Mail Art from all over the globe, and will be posting on that, shortly.…

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Added by Jean Vengua on January 18, 2025 at 8:15pm — No Comments

Incoming: Received wonderful mail art from Richard Baudet! Thank you, Richard!

Added by Jean Vengua on December 4, 2024 at 12:31am — No Comments

Incoming: Thank you, Patricio for the Celestial Mail Art and friendly Gorilla! amazing...

Added by Jean Vengua on November 29, 2024 at 9:09pm — No Comments

Incoming: Mail Art from Karen Champlin (Bellingham, WA)

Thank you, Karen Champlin, for the Mail Art -- so much cool stuff that I will also go into making more mail art!

Added by Jean Vengua on November 18, 2024 at 7:04am — No Comments

Incoming: Mail Art from M.L. Stephens (Salem, OR)

Received a beautiful nature collage mail art from M.L. Stephens, with quote from Maya Angelou, which I needed!

Added by Jean Vengua on November 18, 2024 at 6:58am — No Comments

Incoming Mail Art from Francis Lammé

Thank you, Francis, for the wonderful letter, poems, quotes, and art! I enjoyed learning more about Mail Art :-)

Added by Jean Vengua on November 18, 2024 at 6:49am — No Comments

Incoming Mail Art from Mikel - Thank you for the lovely packet!

Added by Jean Vengua on November 5, 2024 at 7:50pm — 1 Comment

Incoming: Mail Art Postcard

Received an excellent postmarked/time-traveled postcard from Richard C. w/quote from Ray Johnson Thank you!

Added by Jean Vengua on October 23, 2024 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Sunday, Oct. 20

I'm still fumbling out how communications work here. There seem to be a LOT of options! Anyway, everyone has been very friendly, so that is great. I made some mail art this weekend, will be sending them out next week, along with my voting ballot.

Have a great weekend!

Jean

Added by Jean Vengua on October 20, 2024 at 11:37pm — 4 Comments

Flipside

Here's the flipside of "Family Portrait." I thought I would be conscientious and cover over the addresses digitally (though members can access my address here to send mail art). But used polka dots. I hope that's OK.

Added by Jean Vengua on October 17, 2024 at 3:00am — No Comments

Incoming: First MailArt! "Family Portrait"

This is so exciting! Received my first mail art: "Family Portrait" by Richard C. -- from Baby Ruth & Richard! Thank you!

Added by Jean Vengua on October 17, 2024 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

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