Cheryl penn's Blog – December 2010 Archive (9)

Mail Art Received Week of 13th December 2010

Heather has the knack of sending me beautiful words, in beautiful envelopes. 

Poems, Hiding in envelopes, hiding in pockets. …

Mail Art Received 13th December 2010

Roland, known for his bismark-mail-art call sent this interesting card for The World is a Town project.  A world spanned by bridges, machinery, money, stains, relief and Text. And rain.  It survived the rain.

The…

Mail Art Received 13th December 2010

This is the first time I have received mail art from Argentina - what a wonderful surprise - a FAB collage on red for The Red Book by Comunicacion a Distancia mail artist Samuel Montalvetti.

Scanning, copying, paper, text, stamps, ink, its all here in this wonderful mellifuous collage. .

Looking at Samuel's…

Mail Art received 10th December 2010

Ok ok - I KNOW what I saw, Bifidus said I didn't so I'm not saying what I saw although I know I did. Bifidus said it was Latin and was hapic braille - that part I got - the other well...

Clue - I held this to the mirror - he said - WHAT ON EARTH FOR??? I repeat. I'm not saying what I saw because he said that's how rumors…

The format, instructions and sizing for Project 26. This project follows the same format as the Alexander book. Please use a firm paper as this helps the book remain strong in the binding process.

Instructions:

Commercial paper size - A4 - about 30cm x 21cm. Take the paper and cut in half lengthwise.

Fold the sheets and slot one into…

Collaborative Mail Art Book completed 10th December 2010.

As there is insufficient blogging space to upload all the photographs, I thought some interesting connecting pages would suffice - Bifidus Jones causes the Crimson Giant to NOT identify himself, despite potential punishment.…

Mail Art Received 8th December 2010

Stefano's note is self explanatory - "Time is Ageless" has been translated into 12 different languages - 12 world town languages - Stefano is further inviting the world into his call for peace and love. Yip - we could do with more of that Stefano! This is the first non-codex book I have received in a tree shape - very creative Stefano…

The final but not last chapter if the Crimson Giant Saga flew in on bat wings two days ago.

Elaine is asking some searching questions and drawing some interesting conclusions to The Crimson Giant. She used the word WHAT instead of WHO. By a process of elimination, he is not the alpha or omega, the be all and end all. ABSOLUTELY!…

I received this on Monday from J.J. (is that how you want to be known??) all the way from Canada. I bet its icing up there, while we SWELTER and storm? The artwork arrived in this card, also by JJ and her partner Mike. She had noticed the cat blogs and cat days and thought this appropriate - it is! The card is made from paper cut-outs - Amazing!

I…