Cheryl penn's Comments

Hi Cheryl,

Thanks for the + feedback. Damaged mail art is still mail art, added by "unknown" elements (hihi). I dream in multicolours and try to translate my dreams into paintings, some are dark, some are light, some I can't paint at all, I forget dreams, so sometimes I force myself to wake up and take notes and go back to sleep and when I wake up sometimes I can't read my notes at all. As if the universe warns me : "don't mess with dreams" (hihi).

I like also the Aboriginal concept of "dreamtime". Made this weekend 3 works inspired by Aboriginal culture, I work in fases, like most artists, I guess

G.

Blogs for YOU! One today from Sloan, followed by a less-glamorous blog from me for you AMAZING: "Heart Matters"! Ohhhhh, how did you manage to touch what my heart feels these days? Thank you xx Will treasure it, and reread, re-see, it often!

Drawing for me is a kind of playground, I see People or things , in church in the underground, or photos of newspapers I read, or watching TV; and I draw. Most of the time it has no special meaning. But i use them when I make a Story or if I ´m working on a serie, I look around in the old sketchbooks and work with them. The other half are drawings where i give myself a theme and find them in my head. For example people are bowing their back, (the neverending page for Diana Keys) I worked with pictures in my head. outside the sketchbook I have many small drawings from some papers I found or waste from other work where I draw and sometimes write letters on it or make small books like yours from it.

Such a long text in bad english sorry.

Hi Cheryl,

 

Well, I understand Asemics as a form of visual poetry.

Yes, it's my main thing in fact. I always try to paint poems in a visual way. I consider myself a poet first, a painter afterwards. I am very influenced by Belgian artists like Henri Michaux ( a poet who started painting), Dotremont & Alechinsky (Cobra and post Cobra) and art brut, what the americans call "outsider art" (same roots as Cobra: tribal art, art of children, art of people labeled as "crazy" or "disturbed"). What I don't like too much in art is "focussed and well balanced art", I leave that too academics and photography. It's always so onedimensional it provokes sincere heartaches. Art without a focus is a voyage, a permanent discovery and questioning or challenging what you see exactly. I like watching clouds for the same reason...

Guido

Hi Cheryl,

 

Info on how to contact Bernd:

 

Thanks doll for the How Text Lies piece, I like the layering of text amd images. I am working on the A5 booklet for you, it is nearly finished......

Beautiful blog you did for Marie's asemic stitches...I just added on. Amazing!

....and something off in the mail to you today. Perhaps it will come faster now that I added a postal code??? Let's hope for the best.(ok, the Europeans will get there's faster tan i can finish this message...sigh)

 

Cool Cheryl glad it made the long journey to you. I am very intrigued now what can it be????

You are very welcome!

Hi Cheryl,

No, Bernd is not an IUOMA member. He saw your site thru the link I made on mu friour multiply site and he liked your work, so he wanted to mail you and I gave him your address. He's a great artist, from former East Germany in fact. Mail art has played an important role in the aspiration towards freedom in the former DDR. Bernd lives with his family in Brussels, his 2 daughters are studying art in London, his wife works in a German bookshop, he works for the European Community and he's a good friend. I'll send him your regards.

Guido

 

cool, cheryl - my eye or my i is peeled on the mailbox!

john

IUOMA Rule No.1: ALWAYS read mesages on one's pae and /or inbox before commenting on blogs ;-0

Yes, dear Cheryl, I am overjoyed that WINDMILLS has arrived in SA!

WOW! Now to send you some choco glam ;-)

(the monkeys won't eat it, right?)

I can send Chocolate to South Africa as it won't melt in the summer heat...

because it is going to be winter soon! Amazing! 

Hello Cheryl! I've been busy because I've some research works to do, but I might send you mail art soon. I miss doing it already. ^_^

I must plan the zalop concerto on drums. I've been in the studio recording with my band, so my drums are not available. (Ed cries a lake of tears)...

 

Cheers! ZALOP! 

DON`T WORRY CHERYL!!! WE`LL KEEP ON WORKIN FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THE PERFORMANCE MEETING. I THINK THE PROJECT WILL GO ON TILL THE END OF 2011.

A KISS FOR YOU FROM THIS SHORE...

 

Hi Cheryl,

I mistakenly left you an imortant message on Litza's page. Could you read it please?

Sorry about the mix-up.

 

-Wilma

Phew oh what a week that was!... if I remember rightly... a vague possibility... I sent you some mail-art yesterday... my lucky socks have gone missing... if they are in that envelope please point them in this direction and set them running.

I bought strawberrys today.

hugs

hi Cheryl...your L has arrived !!it made it through the various holidays the post celebrates here!relief..

it's a great story and a clever concept as all your work is....just fabulous!

thank you!

Thanks a lot. Karin