Frieder Speck's Blog (172)

A great surprise reached me with the card from Jim. A new kind of work I love the black, white red colouring and the composition. And I found the letter ß. I love this letter, its a little old fashioned like me, so the piece gets a familiar. Thank you very much Jim!…

Nice envelope from Karin Greenwood (my first) with add and pass in it, Another letter from Guido Vermeulen , brilliant colours, black ink beautiful! And the magazine 22 from Susanna Lackner with pieces from 21 other artists very inspiring and wonderful pages. Thank you very much, fantastic work!…

Svenja Wahl sent me two letters, now I know why I like her work so much and why it is so fascinating. She manages it to put with a few additions or some lines a new tenor to the picture or she puts the picture near the real deeper sense with her words or lines or…

Ok; I´ll try to blog the mails that reached me in the last weeks short but I wat to share tehm becaus it is always a nice surprise to have them in the Mailbox but I´m far behind. The first brain cell reached me from Mr. Cohen with one of my own stamps. It makes me a little proud to be part of a brain cell. Thank you Mr Cohen.…

Long time ago Nancy Bell Scott sent me a beautiful book with abstract ink sketches, and some culture. Thank you very much I´always love to find Nancys leters in my postbox!…

Thank you Mr. Cohen!!

In the last weeks I had some very nice mail communication with Roland Halbritter, some I will have to post here and to answer What I diddn´t know was that he is not only an excellent mailartist, he is also a fantastic postofficer! Thank you very much Roland!

The last mail that came this way Heinz Lotz sent. He transformed one of my prints I sent to Roland Halbritter and included a postcard transformation for the project of Roland Halbritter where the same postcard is transformed by…

Some days ago I found something big in the mail!

Instantly I was touched by that christmasfeeling. But in October?

So some Questions: Wait till December for opening? If open now how without destroy the packaging? If opened keep the secret? 

The last question was easy to answer: I can´t keep any secret! After thinking a while this answers the first question…

A piece of mailart that is composed carefully with sketches from envelope to inside, thank you very much, something is on the way.…

A card from Svenja Wahl arrived and it says in two languages that it might be possible to make a change. Maybe once upon a time I will... That gives me hope! Thank you Svenja!

There are many details to discover in the mailartcorrospondence with Roland Halbritter, and there is allways a challanging moment within. Thank you very much!…

Angela follows the threads and sews the signs of communication, its so fascinating that the other side of the paper shows sometimes a complete different Character and its in a way threedimensional and very haptic, thank you…

So much to see in it thank you! Something is on the way!

From paper to envelope to sketching inside  a fine and sensitve work coming a long way from springland to autumnland. Thank you very much!…

Thank you very much Viviana, there is something on the way

We all know she is a person who can keep a secret! I admire her so much for this! So there is only one possibility look who knows about and can´t keep a secret!

Vielen Dank Svenja! Ich mag deine Arbeiten sehr, und es könnte sein, dass ich nochmal antworten muss.…

The first one took so long time to arrive me that we thought it is lost. But lucky me because of that Nancy sent another one:

Both came to a home where they will find a place that honours their quality.

Thank you very much Nancy and of course there…

Svenja Wahl sent me a secret, and sorry I can´t keep it I have to show it! Sorry,   and Thank you very…

Angela Behrend sent me two of her stitched graffity collection project. Its always a exiting moment if I see one envelopes in my postbox, always a stitched part of art in relation of the conversation we have through written words. Thank you very much!…

A power monster came to me, yes Power is what I need! Thank you very much Alexandra Pharmakidis.