My BLOG #2222...it's a COW :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

From Ruud in Breda, created by Heleen in Amstelveen,a real Dutch Treat!

...and many a IUOMA member is havin'-a-cow :-)

Cards and goodies inside a nice BLUE security envie, too:

More cows:

More cards:

And a Super Special A4 size art work: "try to figure it out".....

Thank you, Ruud, for all that you send!

And good news that IUOMA.ning continues for a few more years, yay!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Richard C. knows the cow/bull history:

On a Brain Cell collage that Ryosuke sent me years ago,

there is an ol' rubber stamp...of a BULL.

Oh Boy, Lorraine Kwan, Skooter, LA DADA,  and many others (way back when?)

Might it be a rubber stamp from John Evans?

The collage:

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Look carefully tonipoet :-)

New "altered" version finds Toni between Finnbadger and MomKat :-)

(also on-the-horns?)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

YES...these are the "Yes Ladders", 

or:

How John Lennon met Yoko Ono at her Ladders installation?

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Tea for Two then.

Are those the "Yes" ladders?  Love the cow stamp.

[Toni Hanner -- tonipoet]

Eek, Richard! How wonderful to inscribe the name of tonipoet onto a cow! I await the results of your search, and, if hamburger, well, I like mine with cheese!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Yoko here:IMAGINE PEACE

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

"cheese", Thom! that's a cow!

Thanks folks for the comments...me thinks the "map-cow" or bull

goes quite a way back in mail art. FluXus maybe?

Ruud, your stamp-cow has YOKO Ono's name on it...

and we just opened a super exhibit here in Thessaloniki with Yoko Ono's installations:

IMAGINE PEACE:

me up on her "Ladders"

[Thom Courcelle]

[Thom Courcelle]

I love Heleen's map-cow...and not just because my name's on it! Glad to know it is making for attractive envelopes around the globe thanks to Ruud.

ALSO love Ruud's "try to figure it out" art! The geometric contrasted against the elegant curl-i-cues and colors are great. I don't know if I could "figure it out" outside of its abstrac-terrific quality, but I can tell that it's written in digital code (the series of zeros and ones). I wonder if it translates into anything special or specific???

And with that, I will end my comment with a heifer, so common and famous to the hills here in my corner of the world...

Cheese! ...I mean, 'Cheers'!!

[Ruud Janssen]

There are quites some COW's and BULL's out there. Here is a nice sample I received from SF in USA in the end 90-ies from Robert Rocola.

Bewaren