Received: A-List Mail-Art from Lisa Iversen (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

 

 

Mail-art by IUOMA member Lisa Iversen (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

November 29, 2010 - A third installment of mail-art from Lisa Iversen arrived in my P.O. box last Saturday. I believe this is part of a series she has done using "Gulliver's Travels" as an anchor for collages. Other pieces like this she has done have been posted here at the IUOMA and have generated thoughful responses from recipients. Lisa likes to use old photos that have a documentary feel about them; and she also likes to dig into old books for material, which I appreciate too, This beautifully ripped page of synonyms and antonyms is fascinating and will easily provide a mail-art word for the day (thus we are interactive on several levels!) But all these different power words! I've been pondering these words and thought I had better provide a close up so you can have a look too:

 

 

This is great. What A-words do you find yourself responding to? My A List:

Abandon

Abridge

Absent

Absorb

Abstinence

Abstruse

Absurd

All fantastic words that have denotations and connotations. And Lisa sent them to:

 

 

Thank you, as ever, for the always interesting mail-art, Lisa.

Mail-art word for the day: Abstruse (TYLI)

Mail-art color for the day: Azure (TYAB) - As in: "Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer... I had something of a pain in the gulliver."

Mail-art fashion consultant: Blue shirt day

Mail-art psychic: "Roadkill mail-art: The postman always wrings twice on a bad hare day." LEARN CHINESE. Bus=shi: Shi flattens your hare. Lucky numbers: 30, 47, 29, 24, 18, 11

[cheryl penn]

I will wear the blue shirt in celebration of certain of us showing our faces!!!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

sorry, that is so NOT haptic poetry! sigh.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

...speaking of "anamnesis" or "anamneseis" = memories...you have me singing as I prepare my 1/365 mail art card for the inauguration of Dec 1st day (which it is already , "today" in Greece)....la,la,la,
"Memory,
all alone in the moonlight,
I can smile at the old days,
it was beautiful then.
I remember the time I knew what happiness was.
Let the memory live again..."

[Marie Wintzer]

Love the envelope too (but I think I'm saying this too often these days). I vote for the return of the blue shirt icon, and i think I'm not alone here.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

αναμνήσεις.....anamnesis...Cheryl, ya a-speakin' da Greco here!
(right, DSV, you heard me talkin' about da Bears and da Cubs, eh?)

[cheryl penn]

anamnesis

[De Villo Sloan]

You lost me again. What would you have picked for the word of the day?

[De Villo Sloan]

Katerina is just a kid from Chicago. I should have known from the accent. Cheryl wears a blue shirt every day, so I'll just suggest a blue shirt every day - no brainer. Lisa, I truly appreciated this. I think I "got" it. I'm sending you something, and maybe we can move forward with increased understand.

[cheryl penn]

Ol' blue shirt signing in.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

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