FAB's with a View To?

[cheryl penn]

Hello :-) -I just wanted to say that I have received ALOT of the most wonderful mail art - I apologize for not blogging - OR always saying thank you - but rest assured, I WILL return you something - sooner or later. Here follows a selection - thank you all!!! (I am not being held responsible for spelling - the spell chick is still living with Nancy the last time I heard :-)

Two beautiful watercolors from Judith Heartsong (USA).  A tangled Ball of Thoughts (I am intimately acquainted with that!) and a note on the artists that have gone before her. I have heard it said we are the sum total of our ancestors? Each a product of what has gone before.

Judith sings the song of her heart for sure.

From Torma Cauli (Budapest)  Aristotele’s Artbooklet: -  A FAB number 3 entry to  The Alexandrian Library (Revised) of Boekies.  For those of you who don’t know, I am intending to begin a library of boekies (Afrikaans word for little books).  This will be the third documented work for the collection (as usual I’m working backwards…) Aristotle – Greek philosopher and Scientist:

“For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility”.  It is NO unconvincing impossibility to me that this was occasionally the state of Aristotles brain – alphabet soup… Visual/Concrete Poetry at its best? A continual rearrangement?? Man- I love it! 

I have been trading with Karl-Friedrich Hacker (Germany) for a while after contributing to one of his books. 

This boekie – another entrant to the library is titled The Tree of Poetry and is a reflection and documentation of performance artist sketches done in 2007 in Mestre, Venice.

Katerina - I broke out into  laughter after opening your package :-)) - it was NEARLY hysterical! Detailed plans and building instructions for Kat's version of ZALOP City Museum. I cant even fill out tax forms!!! I will need to hire someone with a high powered microscope and tweezers and ALOT of time to assemble this for me - but you never know - there MIGHT be people out there???? Anyone? Anywhere???

SIX pages of PRECISE, SIX floors of paper craft. Might I just add - each sheet is A4 Size!

From Roberto Rios - this is my luck GOTIJ - very pertinent as I am working with archaeology and cities - new cities of course! Roberto, your City Collage is wonderful. The inner circle is moveable.

From Rob (Australia) The Mayor of Inkovia - ALWAYS sheer pleasure to receive Robs work. This first boekie (1/3) is a Concise History of the Inkovian Space Program (The unabridged version)  :-) X

Robs boekis are a delight - filled with imaginative machinery - and I see hear that he references Major Tom :-)))  -something we've all been doing lately!

From Michalis Kotsaris (Greece) - Great to see you in my mail box again - and ZALOP - Fight for Your Planet! - Emerging from his moody brushstrokes, Michalis manages to depict earth soldiers - FAB! 

Another ZALOP - From KDJ - This made my day!!! :-))) 

From Nadine - this also made me laugh - families on official holidays - I've seen ALL these faces!

From Catherine (Belguim) - This is a FAB piece - a note said "I've sent you a GOTIJ piece - Mona Lisa will follow later - OK? - FOr SURE thats ok Catherine - I am looking forward :-) X

Again - MANY MANY thanks to all the artists who correspond with me - I appreciate your generosity and your FAB work even more :-) XX

[Marie Wintzer]

A long roll of fabs! Now you must be busy arranging this letter soup back into a story? The all american holiday made me laugh too. And, oh, I will send my application for that position at the Zalop City Museum.

Thanks for blogging all these beauties!

[Svenja Wahl]

Superdupermail! Love Judiths tangled thoughts, and the book soup, KDJs great Zalop, urghs, everything!!! 

[cheryl penn]

Hello - 5 am Angie? Permission to ge back to bed - thats wwwaaayyyy to early! Lisa - for sure - LOADS of talent :-) X

[cheryl penn]

This IS a FAB haul :-)!! The Aristoteles Booklet is quite something. Its the second thing Torma has sent with alphabet soup to me - I think there's a secret message :-))! X

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

GOTIJ! What a mail art haul you have, Cheryl! Some wondrous things here!

'Love the Aristoteles Art booklet..Torma sent real vispo!