BRAIN CELL - RYOSUKE COHEN - COMPILATION

here/s the thing for me. i would send more to Brain Cell, but i find too many repeats and they're all beginning to look alike. unfortunate.

how do others feel ?

I recived Brain Cell 1067 - 1082 - 1087 - 1095 - 1097

Brain Cell always interesting...no two are ever alike!

Grazie, Bandini, thanks for posting.

@ Joey, I think each Brain Cell form unique in its own, by both then combination of images and the combination of artists. Personally spoken, I love to see cartoons and well-drawn animals, so if there are fun cartoons or ‘wow’-causing drawings, my smile large.

For this reason I keep the received Brain Cell forms untouched. One day I was annoyed by again and again seeing the same image of a nude woman, so I drew my comment to it (a breastfeeding woman - as nursing a one year old in public still is taboo (also in my country) while magazines with nude women are easy available).

So one idea, if you get bored, is to create a reply to the received Brain Cell form.

An other idea is to recycle it, into an envelope or cut out parts to use in your own mail art, zines, etcetera

And one idea is to stick 4 or more together and paint something over it: this way Ryosuke Cohen creates ‘portraits of artists’, see for instance http://www.ryosukecohen.com/dion/fractal/141516.htm

To be short, I think you are right when saying the forms look similar, but for me that is only at first sight; when looking more close there is so much more to see. And to do, if one is not afraid to cut or stick the forms (I am, though :-) )

I can see where Joey is coming from in terms of the similiarities between Brain Cells, but I think this has to do with using the same technique for 30 years! Otherwise, each issue is a snapshot of the network at that moment. So I see the variety, too.

I just found a stash of Brain Cells from the 90s, and looking at them brings me joy. I love the colors and all the details. Each time I look at one I see something different. There's a surprise (or ten) in each issue.

I received Brain Cell 1105

I received Brain Cell 1106

One if by Land...3 if by SEA :-)

Brain Cell sometimes takes TIME, but does arrive eventually.

Brain Cell #1096,#1099,#1100 from December printing,

came in today's mail delivery...8 April 2021.

They could not come by "AIR", so they came by " SEA",

on a very sloooow boat!

Brain Cell #1100:

(#1096 and #1099 are already posted here)

ΑΓΑΠΗ = LOVE

ΕΛΠΙΔΑ = HOPE

Brain Cell 1111 from April 9th did arrive today

Brain Cell #1107 

printed March 1, arrived 18 June , 2021 :-)

list:

Brain Cell #1107 had Greek Orion Soup:

Brain Cell 582, Feb.29, 2004. From my archive.

cell 340

From my archive:

Brain Cell 669, JAN.10, 2007

and article of Ryosuke Cohen (June 2006) "MAIL ART - NETWORKING ART".

Brain Cell 126, probably in April 1989. This is my first participation in this project (The linocut depicting the Vitruvian man, made according on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, was a work I sent. try to find it.)

I received Brain Cell 1120

Brain Cell #1114 just arrived in Greece:

Brain Cell #1114 list:

Brain Cell #1114 left side details:

Brain Cell #1114 right side detais:

Thank you for posting, Katerina!

I received the Brain Cell, too, but due to some circumstances I still wasn't able to post it. You might recognize the banana (almost on top) on the left :-)

I received Brain Cell nº 1121

Brain Cell ~ 1124

Orion Soup:

Address list:

Never too late: Brain Cell 1112 from April, 2021

arrived in Greece 14 September :-)

My DaDa Brain Cell stamping did get to Japan:

but others I have sent since February have not seemed to make it :-(

Brain Cell 1112:

left side:

right side:

Brain Cell 1112 list:

I received Brain Cell 1124 

I received Brain Cell 1130

Brain Cell #1132:

my stamping:

I received Brain Cell nº 1134

Brain Cell 1132

Brain Cell 1133

Season's Greetngs¡ with Ryosuke

I received Brain Cell nº 1137 

I received Brain Cell nº1133,grazie Ryosuke

Brain Cell 1133 arrived in Greece on Valentine Day!

Brain Cell 1133 list:

my snail mail with pumpkins and Alan Grover Daniel stamping too:

Brain Cell #1131:

From November, 2021, arriving 21 Feb.2022 :-)

Brain Cell #1131 left side:

Brain Cell #1131 right side: