Collaborative Mail Art Books

Mail Vispo  fly fly fly  mail )Dress of Vispo!))))

Wow Svetlana!!!! This work is top stuff! The dresses are fabulous!! 

Svetlana - this is WOW!!!! Phew - SO MUCH WORK! Well done - and all the best with your FLUXRUS collection - I hope more people will be supporting you??  When I see the work in here I think ALL the vispo collaborators should send you something for your exhibition? How about it everyone? Something extra in your envelopes for Svetlana and Victoria's project? :-) X

About Sheryl of many thanks for an estimation!)) I try to work better and better to me it very much am pleasant also to me it is tasty!)))) thanks for the reference to our exhibition Fluxus!)) Friends send the works we m are happy to your participation of thanks!))))))

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/respected-international-fluxus...

You all are so inspiring! Beautiful work.

Received my very first chapter for the vispo book from Katerina!! I love what you've done Kat and i see certain wonderful trashbook elements in it. 

Cheryl's new aesthetics school book has some great approaches to vispo

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-cheryl-penn-s...

Finished the original art works for this project. Still have to make the 16 edition, so be patient. Choose as tribute artist Henri-+ MICHAUX, each Vispo is connected with letter of his name H M I C H A U X and a quote from his writings I translated from the French. Those who are familiar with VISPO will understand immediately why I choose these reflections from the Jasmin Man (Unica Zurn’s positive love model was Michaux; the negative however was the man with whom she was living: Hans Bellmer whom she called the garbage man; As a man I have always find this extremely difficult to understand: why women choose to live with their torturers instead with the ones they really love and admire but that is not part of the reflections of my contribution; I repeat below the quotes by Michaux in case you cannot read them well:

Drugs bore us with their promised paradise.

That they give us wisdom instead because we are not living

a century away from paradise.

Henri Michaux

Once I was a word that tried to move with the speed of thought

Henri Michaux

I started drawing to liberate myself from words

Henri Michaux

In the night in the night I was one with the night

in a night without limits in the night

Henri Michaux

It is wrong to think that thought can be expressed by words.

They are not satisfactory ways of expressions!

Gestures, mime, sounds, lines and colors,

those are primitive, pure and direct ways of expression.

Henri Michaux

Draw without any particular intention,

doodle machinewise,

almost always faces appear on paper

Henri Michaux

Mankind, look to yourself in the mirror of paper

Henri Michaux

Faces of childhood, faces that do not believe

that everything is solved by the passage to becoming adult

Henri Michaux

very cool, Guido!

john

Beautiful, Guido! So happy you are with us in Vispo Book One! Wow!

Guido - ok - WOW! Good referencing too - thank you - I'm enjoying the reading as much as the work :-) X

Welcome to the new members of Collaborative Books - good to see you here :-) X

Yay! Guido's Vispo Book One arrived in Monday Mail Art Day!Super great!

Guido quoted Michaux and it especially hit my heart strings! This is why I do art!

Thank you, Guido!

It's Greek to me...Diane Keys' Vispo One arrived and it is FAB!

Thank you, DK. xxx

Please will the participants of Book Two send their work to Reed Altemus. His address is in the Book Two discussion :-) X

Hello,

I'm posting this because many of you participated in the successful Photobooth Performance project or you may be a book collector. The free ground shipping code is ending for this book and the artistamp catalogs (or any of my Lulu books). The code is WHOASHIPPING. My discount prices will last through Feb 7th. Let me know what you think about the books. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ginnylloyd

Thanks,

Ginny

Angi, nope, no reject in sight :-) X

Janine - only 15 people per book :-) - some people are corresponding/swopping with people that they already mail to? But that has nothing to do with this collaboration. :-) X

Never mind - I will post you another piece of painting - that will cheer you up :-)))XX

Wow! Angie...that lady did some feat of creativity: 365 books!!!

(and I barely survived 365 postcards ;-0 )

There are some amazing inspirational creations at that blog...many altered books but also many hand-crafted beauties, too! Thanks for the link!

Welcome new members - good to have you :-) X

Thanks Cheryl! I can't wait to participate!

I love art book

Please note!
It appears as though I have left the note out of certain envelopes I sent with Reed Altemus' VISPO pages - these are the extra that I have been sending for Book 2 - Alice belongs to Reed - please make sure that you post him his pages too - thank you :-) X

Welcome Ranae!

Welcome to the new members :-).

Ok - its the last day of February - in fact there was an EXTRA day. I know that some pages are in the mail, but please - this was D-Day. So, hope you're all on it - and those of you who have been VERY quiet - please let us know how you're doing. Many thanks :-) X

Last day of February...and an EXTRA day to boot:-)

February 29....LEAP!

Beautiful Katerina!

Thank you,Cleo, and today is an extra day with extra lots and lots of mail art! Including a super Vispo Book One from Matthew Stolte! thank you, Matthew!

Yip - I'm looking forward - happy 1st of March to everyone :-) X

KALO MINA! ΚΑΛΟ ΜΗΝΑ!

Hello Vispo Comrades, both my chapters are mailed (#1 - dedicated to Karl Kempton & #2 - dedicated to Jackson Pollock). Give it a few days and contact me if it hasn't arrived.

So please - no nagging from the peanut gallery and self-appointed deadline Nazis.

I seem to be getting all the chapters, although haven't taken a precise inventory. As with Asemics 16, I will write intros for both volumes.

Very quiet one checking in. I am on it, though running a tad late. Sorry! Will post tomorrow.

Glad we're on track:-) - thanks for checking in - any other quiet ones want to whisper where they are? 

Yes, Vispo One from KDJ arrived in Greece today!Thank you xxx

And now there are 10! One little, two little, three little boekies...

KDJ, I am having fun to "pick my po"! Great little phrases in a tiny envelope!

Hi all, I blogged Rebecca Guyver's chapter. I think she did some really interesting work

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-rebecca-guyve...

Participants of the Vispo collaboration - Good morning :-) - its time to call this project a day.  I know that there is work out there in the mail, but some participants have been very quiet and we've heard nothing. Queries are coming in - so if you have work outstanding or not even posted, please let us know so that we can begin the wrap.  Many thanks to those who were timeous :-) X

For documentation on Angie Cope's Cornell chapter please see

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-angie-cope-s-...

Cornell is a great but he is hard to dig into and I think Angie hit the mainline of solid gold. I guess Snooks sat out this project. Too bad; it might have made him famous. I LOVE Cornell, this chapter, and Visconsin.

You gotta be kidding, Angie! We are close to the finish line for Vispo, but there are still several who have not sent. It would be sooooo nice, just once with the collab books, to have a complete set= pages  from ALL!

Number 11 arrived here in Greece :-) 

Thank you, Sloan!  The middle pages are stuck together...wet glue when packed  in envelope? But a fantastic tribute to JacPo!!!

no problem KDJ--your pages were staggering. So professional and inventive thank you. Also received DVS's DVSes? pages last week and they are super engaging--there are five I have not yet received

VISPO ZALOP...official on Brain Cell #816

Gracias DVS

Gracias Nancy

Gracias Angie

Gracias Reed, gracias Cheryl

Macanudo, Samuel!!

john

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