from Construction Sea FEB 17, 2017

[Matthew Stolte]

Last Outgoing - DEC 16th 2016 Greetings Mail Artists/ Vispoets/ Avantpoets/ Fans. This is my 1st entry of the year which includes works from December up to the present. I uploaded about 89 pictures so here we go.

add & pass - seems Trump (sticker sent by Mars Tokyo) has a way of getting into every nook & cranny. I've been having the most American nightmares of my life, which aren't so much scary as kitchy at best. I had a Trump dream in which we went to the kitchen of a closed restaurant to eat. There was a big bowl of Indian style stew with tofu & Trump loved it. The help put it in the refrigerator before I could have some. Last night's waking dream included large, rectangular collector plates with Trump on them in vintage style colors & design. I'm sending this out; received I believe from C. Mehrl Bennett with Opal Majesty & Brignull (?) UK.

add & pass - via MomKat

This is one side of a return from Amy Irwin, a collaboration.

This "box collage" Amy intended to mount she felt was better left unmounted as to fold it back into a box, which it does very neatly. A curious object & I like the back/ inside too.

Envelope from Amy Irwin

postcard from Angie Cope - Angie shares Dogs!

Collab with Bela Grimm. I believe I returned this. It was made with a print of our original collab.

Brain Cell 966 - Right Side

Brain Cell 966 - Left Side

There are certain mailings that are consistent in form/ style that have become "comfort mailings". Ryosuke Cohen's Brain Cell poster is one of them. I have a gallery of 9 of them now right inside my apartment. This BC includes my eMTeVisPub 5089 stamp, which was created by Moan Lisa, "post mail art movement".

C. Granlund - the bottom work is a collab with none other than Diane Keys

C. Granlund

comics from a newspaper sent by C. Granlund, FINLAND

C. Granlund's great envelope

1 of 2 mailings here from C. Mehrl Bennett

from C. Mehrl Bennett

from C. Mehrl Bennett

I love stickers (hint hint). This is an amazing work by CMB - "Found Fluxus Score" stickers, Moribund Facekvetch, me & CMB 2016. The starter sheet was an exercise I literally received in the office of my therapist after I had ruptured my Achilles. It works! Louis Zukofsky or straight ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP...

Another postcard from Angie Cope. 2017 is indeed Year of the Rooster

flip side by Angie Cope - Year of the Rooster

Back of envelope by C. Z. Lovecraft

just a bit of the stuff inside the mailing from C.Z. Lovecraft, as always overwhelming

Envelope by C. Z. Lovecraft

More from C. Z. Lovecraft

Laminated & dyed by Diane Keys, my Grocery List (I finally bought Turmeric)

Collabs with Diane Keys - I've worked with these & they are on my Pub table now, ready to seal & mail. The grocery list work is laminated. Diane dyed my works in purple tones, providing the complex color levels.

LIVE ED - includes a work returned covered with 3 "War Suck'zz" stamps.

LIVE ED

by LIVE ED

LIVE ED

postcard from Gik Juri - Russia

badge by Ruud Janssen - he'll make you one if he hasn't already IUOMA

I believe I took this from my Facebook page, by Jim Wittenberg

collab with John M. Bennett

from 1 of 3 mailing form MomKat, aka Katerina Nikoltsou

Katerina Nikoltsou

Katerina Nikoltsou

The Orange - Mailing from Mars Tokyo

The Orange - Mailing from Mars Tokyo

Laminated poetry from Moan Lisa - Occhio Prismatico Issue #1

Laminated poetry from Moan Lisa

Katerina Nikoltsou

Katerina Nikoltsou

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MTS - sent to Dean Artist in Seine

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A very short run of TLBs for a poetry event hosted by Paul Baker, Madison WI, for New Year's day. I had a great time listening to a variety of poets & reading a bit myself.

MTS - with photos by Paul Baker

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PJ 40 cover

PJ 40 back cover - with a Jon Foster sticker

Richard BAUDET

by Richard BAUDET

Richard BAUDET

This is another mail art "comfort mailing". The New Year's poem is awaited by many in the networks. The year doesn't begin without it.

MTS - found photo

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Finally, one of the oldest mailings received here - by Thom Courcelle - more stickers! & another mailing indicative of the current political climate. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX NOTES: Jon Foster sent a postcard bearing a change of address: 1121 Kenwood St/ Winston-Salem NC 27103/ USA. Madison Print & Resist will be March 25, 2017. I will not be showing but Xexoxial Editions will & like me, I suggest you go! Visit: http://www.xexoxial.org. I will be having a 2-month long show of my works at U-Frame-It Shop East some time this year. Visit: http://www.uframeitmadison.com. As always, Many Thanks to all. Keep working!

[Matthew Stolte]

thanks Corgi! fyi I copy & paste all this from my Construction Sea entries. I'm currently acquiring material for 2 big posts, a normal one & one just of my stuff, when my show on East Johnson street comes down. 

[Matthew Stolte]

Yes, pictures loaded this time! Enjoy & thanks to all!