Nancy Bell Scott's Blog – June 2013 Archive (22)

Boekie from E the Ambassador d'Utopia, Samuel Montalvetti, and Marni Zainodin

Actually, it was an add + pass! But may I keep it? I think Samuel began it, with a paper included in one of my mail arts to him, which has my address stamped on it. He and E and Marni did great things with it. E mailed it back here, to my delighted surprise. More: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 19, 2013 at 4:30am — 1 Comment

Thanks to KDJ, Dan Mouer, and Angie Cope + Snooky

Our trashpo friend KDJ sent me a bunch of B.S. for my birthday several months ago (late, I might add):

KDJ: G.I.O.! So don't be too late!

Dan sent "Coronal Mass Ejection," a lovely piece. Don't know what CME is? I looked it up on Wiki, and so can you (fascinating phenomenon): …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 19, 2013 at 4:00am — 5 Comments

Thanks to Helen Amyes, Mariano Filippetta, and Jon Foster

I love Helen's abstracts on corrugated cardboard:

Where is Helen??

Mariano's "Circles of Water"--in blue, of course--reminds a bit of Cheryl Penn's desktop project: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 19, 2013 at 3:43am — 1 Comment

Thanks to Susan McAllister, Wily Coyote, and Ursula Rodgers ...

... for much-appreciated mail arts received some time ago. From Susan McAllister (wow), "Evolution Gone Wrong": My first each from Wily Coyote and Ursula Rodgers: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 19, 2013 at 3:29am — 2 Comments

Lesley Magwood Fraser's lyrical drawings+

A fold-out artful yet beautifully ordinary "boekie" of drawings (with a touch of color) arrived from Les two days ago. (With a wonderful note, inked on a recipe book page that gives instruction for Bohemian Sauce and Genoa Sauce, which may be in serious and dire competition for all we know.)

With her art she expresses moment-to-moment life, its pain and hope and…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 6:00am — No Comments

"Musical Tinkle" from Marie Wintzer

This deeply inspiring boekie arrived from Marie in the winter. It means a lot to me on many levels. I don't know whether others received and blogged a version of Musical Tinkle, but here is what I was lucky to receive: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 5:30am — 4 Comments

"Ice Melt" from Amy Morton

This beauty arrived in an envelope painted with richly joyful colors from Amy Morton, a recently new member of IUOMA. I was and am delighted by Amy's work, and quote some thoughts from her enclosed note:

"I dabble in many mediums but my main passion is historic photographic printing processes." "This is 'Ice Melt' and it is printed in a cyanotype…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 5:21am — 1 Comment

Are these bullet marks? Yes ...

... and they were extremely lovable until David Stafford told me this. But then they remained lovable. Sometimes a line can be drawn between art and life--or is it that they're so juxtaposed as to be indistinguishable?

That is plain old gorgeous.…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

BLO pens and Pick-up Sticks

From Katerina Momkat Nikoltsou and Dean Marks:

Katerina sent not only her beautiful and colorful-on-black pickup sticks type…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 4:31am — 2 Comments

TRASHBOOK from Neil Gordon, and who in Connecticut can be trashier?

This trashbook from Neil is raw and real, as all his mail art is. The boekie's pages held a letter and so just a few selected pages are shown in this post--plenty to appreciate the rawness and reality: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 18, 2013 at 4:30am — No Comments

Neil Gordon and Diane Keys TRASHPO

Barkpo from Neil:

There it is, great and raw bark, with someone's "stump treework" ad, put together by Neil along with a few other doodles on paper. The whole thing is on cardboard, and says clearly that this is Neil's design. And I love it. Also from Neil in recent months: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 8:26am — 5 Comments

It's from Christopher Skinner !

Such beautiful waxy + burnt words + symbols in this little book. The entire work is pure poetry: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 8:16am — 3 Comments

More charming oddities from Carina Granlund ...

... from months ago ... thank you, Carina:

That one is a favorite from Carina. See the car! The bathing suits! The abbreviated handwritten notes on the image! I'm still trying to figure out how those notes came out right side up, when the rest of it seems to be a transfer--a phenomenon Carina and I have discussed in the past. She clearly knows how to do it, and I love…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 7:52am — 4 Comments

Tammy and the Secret Temple

by David Stafford:

Slowly trying to catch up on blogging months' worth of most-worthy mail art, I briefly considered scanning "only" David's story and not the picture side of this card. Another glance at it, though, said: That hair is…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 7:35am — 5 Comments

Wonderful season-ago boekie from Katerina

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 7:16am — 3 Comments

More eclectic surprises from Frieder Speck

One envelope held three very different pieces from Frieder--never a dull moment:

I think Frieder's days must be very interesting.…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 7:07am — 2 Comments

Thanks to Kerri Pullo and Svenja Wahl

This is a beautiful scroll- parchment- burnt- and/or rust-like asemic piece from Kerri. That's quite a combination of adjectives ... and every single one describes something special to me. I love this piece.

Svenja sent this action-packed card from…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 6:54am — 4 Comments

Thanks to Mim Golub Scalin and Alicia Starr

Alicia did some fantastic graphite (or graphite-like) scribbling on her piece featuring Betty Friedan and Vanessa Place. Some other queens are featured also in the torn handwritings. Alicia's turn of mind--I love it.

A card from Mim is always a treat, and…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 9, 2013 at 6:39am — 2 Comments

Lesley Magwood Fraser--much missed!

At the end of 2012 Magwood sent a little folded boekie of recent drawings with collage elements:

Her portrayals are usually immediate and often poignant. These works plus the note she enclosed are both. All of her work is unfailingly expressive and…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 3, 2013 at 5:34am — 2 Comments

Ruud Janssen last fall

Ruud's painted envelopes are so alive; I'd like to see a huge group of them amassed one day. They talk:

This arrived last October, and contained the latest of Ruud's IUOMA materials, which I always enjoy seeing. Special note to Dean: Sometimes Ruud's materials contain requests for your latest stamps or other IUOMA statements or decorations you may have created.…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on June 3, 2013 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

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