Mary Anne's Blog – August 2019 Archive (3)

a brief but pointless rant against the system

Just returned from this week's traumatic trip to the Post Office.

There seems to always be a tussle between me and some of the staff about stamps and such. As soon as the cost of postage reaches a certain level, they use a label instead of stamps. Even though the Royal Mail churns out dozens of expensive new stamps, month after month, the post offices never use them, so I have to watch as my poor attempts at a decorative envelope is thoroughly disfigured.

Some do try their best…

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Added by Mary Anne on August 29, 2019 at 3:32pm — 11 Comments

Blog the second: serendipity perhaps . . .

I've been working hard on a new collage. I covered a sheet of paper with random pieces of magazine, no real thought, just following the fancy. I had three copies of the same issue of a supermarket give-away and, for some reason that I will probably never fully understand, a picture of a humble bath-brush caught both my eye and imagination. I tore them out, halved each in a different way, then added them to the work in hand; and that was as far as it went. The muse left me and my creation…

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Added by Mary Anne on August 23, 2019 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Zalop!

Does anyone else remember Rudd's search for new Fluxus words or the great Zalop! project?

I came across this advert. today and it reminded me . . .

https://youtu.be/kC03xAtk1DA

Added by Mary Anne on August 10, 2019 at 11:00am — 22 Comments

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