Mail-Art Received from Moan Lisa (Des Moines, Iowa, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Moan Lisa (Des Moines, Iowa, USA)

July 28, 2014 - Moan Lisa has been doing some fantastic visual poetry lately with strong asemic elements, and I am thrilled to share a recent batch received via snail mail. (Moan has a big presence in the digital realm as well.)

Moan is becoming a master of the layering school. Often, text is overlaid upon images of women. What I find interesting about this set of pieces is that the images are more distorted than in other comparable works (by Moan Lisa). The asemics are, of course, indecipherable; and now the images are succumbing to the process. In fact, in the case of the work above, I am not sure if I have presented it right-side-up, if there is a right way. So here is another option:

Text and image are becoming integrated (as I say, the Holy Grail of vispo). Moan Lisa also makes free use of appropriation. Work by friends is woven into the piece. I see some fragments of a Dark wall composition.

Gorgeous! Some interesting experimental writing was included as well:

And the envelope:

Many thanks to Moan Lisa for sending me the great work and hard copy for the archives!