Mail Art Martha

i am keep designing, and i prepared a small gift for you, you may got it in next month:D

i enjoy that project very much. the most interesting project for me in 2012:)

best

oh good, glad you like it :-)

Bonjour!

Well, there was I opening that HM Liz 11 would give me a New Year Honour (I was hoping for a Dukedom at the very least), but you beat her to it and very kindly awarded me the title of 'Mail Artrist of the Year of the Earthworm'.

I am deeply honoured.

I am preparing my speech.

When do I have to deliver it? And where? And will there be dis-simultaneous translation for the Earthworms,

May you all in Retailia have a blissful shopping spree in the next few weeks.

Val

Bonjour!

Vizma is coming your way, and will be attending the Earthworm Awards at the Tate.

Please look after her well.

Regards, Erni/Val

What a fabulous invite I received for the Steps of Tate Britain! I am V V sad that I won't be with you all and will treasure my balsa!

Bonjour Martha!

Sorry to hear about your leg, and hope that you will be OK for the next Olympics. (I have just spent 5 days in hospital having two operations on my foot).

You should have got Vizma's photo by now. I couldn't put one of mine in because I was in the horsepickle.

Hope the rest of you is well.

Val

PERASTIKA, Martha! Do take care, and stay off your foot...

you can always email like Val and Nancy bell Scott. 

Is this an epidemic??? Heal soon ! xxx Katerina

Choose one, Dear Martha:

i) Let's hop together into 2013

ii) We could do a Two-Legged Race

iii) Or we could train for the Triple Jump in the next Olympics

iv) Or we could exchange some more Mail Art next year.

Best wishes to you and him too, Val

How is your foot?  My own Dear Foot was rearranged on 3 Dec then the pain pills made me more ill than the main pain which passed by about the 5th day.  A little titanium plate now anchors my Great toe and the long pin through my littlest piggy will come out 9 January.

Do you also find that the hobbling around gets tiresome?

this makes quite a group with you, Val, Nancy Bell Scott and me, all in December.cheers, hope you're hopping hastily,ElizabethHere's the Pota-Toe:

Definitely I'll be there Martha and Scott tells me that he and his daughters will be along. I believe that Stripygoose will be there too. Can't wait!

Greetings Martha,  Thank you and welcome to you, too, in the "friends" thing.   Looks as if we'll all be waltzing into spring.

Watching for Spring:

Hang on til then!

Bonjour! Glad to hear that your paw is getting better. Mine is healing slowly. It will probably be more or less OK on the 3rd February, just in time for the operation on the other one on the 4th of February: what great timing! And I will have to change my stair hobbling technique. Looking forward to getting some Mail Art from you and hope that your Tate trip goes well -- photos are expected, of course.

Bon weekend, Val

  Hurray for your hopping to the Tate gathering!   I'm so pleased for you that you get to be there.

  About he squirrel darlings, first an ailing one showed up on my 2nd floor windowsill desperately eating the birdseed.  (european-wise, the 1st floor, we live on the american 2nd and 3rd floors).  That was Miss Wisp.  She got well and lived about 3 more years while others learned to come over and I learned squirrelly things. I photograph them for about 6 years now and my spousie does also.

Did you take-Kate-to-the-Tate, Martha?

And Vizma, too?

Waiting to see pics...with Andy, and Scot, and Stripygoose.

Hope you had a great time! xxx

Martha! Of course you can keep her/me! (although Kat made it, but I'm sure she'd rather we stick together!!)  I'd be honoured to be a Cardboard Head in Residence at your place! In your studio, I hope? As long as there's a photo to come at Artspace !!! ;-))

Valentine Titchmarch writes: Cardboard Vizma cut outs need liquid at frequent intervals, ideally every 2 hours. The liquid should be at least 12° alcohol, and preferably bubbly.

Thankyou, Dear Martha, for 'clouding' me. Glad to hear that your foot is OK. Mine is, slowly recovering, and I am getting ready for my 'Nelson Moment'...one eye, one foot, and one (well, ask John). Looking forward to receiving your exhibition card. Regards, Val

Glad to see that the banana card arrived so fast!

You deserve a Banana Day mailing because you sent me

BLUE bananas :-) 'Love 'em! xxx

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Your lovely origami bird is happy in our magnolia tree : > )

Hi Martha, thanks again for the amazing Trashpo; it's finally been officially blogged.

http://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/this-is-not-minxus-th...

Best wishes, DVS

Dear Martha, i am so glad the key ring arrived and you enjoy it:D  i will keep doing in this summer with more ideas.

Thank you for your support to the newspaper project which held by horst baur and will have a show in Changsha.

all my best!

Hi, martha, i do not get the mailart you sent to the newspaper project, but i want to say thank you first cuz you are so kind and full of inspiration with mailart.

i will tell you when i get it:)

Hi Martha, and I am glad too much for meeting us here.

POSTAL ART INTERNATIONAL CALL

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thank you - I love this chicken! : > )

The personalized Ex-Libris stamps arrived. They are fabulous and wonderfully wrapped. Thank you so much. Suus

Ah I haven't been to Bracknell particularly often - only moved to the area about 6 months ago.  Strangely enough I used to live fairly close to you - my parents are from Bexley and as a cricketer I have spent a fair amount of time in Beckenham!  I haven't left any trees there though... maybe I should get working on that!  

I look forward to exchanging art with you :)

The first graders had a blast with your envelope this morning! They were super intregued by the money. Also the stamps. And they all want the Shopping Trolly Gallery paper sculpture-may I copy and distribute? Wish you could be here, too! The kids are super jazzed and curious about the people sending these pieces-I knew it would go over well with them, but had no idea how much. Thank you!!!

Oh, sorry, I think it wanted to be where it travelled, so we should respect the ways of art I think. I have to find some art that wants to go to Mailarta  Thanks for blogging this idiosyncratic letter!

Hi, Maybe I can show 1st graders in San Diego some of this too.

Martha, thank you for your lovely peace card!

I am not quite sure what to do about those instructions. You did not fill it out for yourself. Should I fill you in or leave it? All the best 

xx

Very good, very good, Martha...WAIT until June 29 to open that mail art I sent...

a nice surprise for THAT day is inside :-)

My greetings to Kevin-the-postman!

Today is June 29, Martha! You can open your mail art from Greece!

And this arrived yesterday but I did not open it yet...

maybe you meant : 29 / 06???today and not 29 /05 May??? :-)

Can I open it now please?

Hee, hee, heee...what day is it? what is today's date? what time is it?

I have it on my laptop...how else would I know ! Ha!

'Glad you like Little Prince :-)

And now I opened yours...that is a beautiful watercolor! ...and money ! Many thanks xxx

Can't resist because I had the same question and figured it out. Alfred Jarry - "Ubu Roi" & College of Pataphysics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jarry

Howdy, MAM. It's Alfred Jarry. For more info, read "Ubu Roi"

Y'r ol' Bud,

Fike

Very impressive, Martha! Apparently there is a London College of Pataphysics.

http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/

Pataphysics is likely an influence on other somewhat imaginary entities such as RJ's Correspondance School & Buddha University.

Thank you MAMartha. Your card is lovely. I like the T-shirt saying  about being out in the wind by the seaside. Yes, to that one! We had sun today after much rain. My garden looks wonderful! Hope it's sunny there tomorrow.

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Thank you for the super-seagull mailart Martha :>)

Martha - your art through the letterbox ebook is a real triumph. You've done a fantastic job and it is fascinating - thank you! : > )

Gosh - that image I just up-loaded is huge!

MAM....I love your "message in a bottle" submission....so, so cool!

Your fabulous and delicious trashpo arrived. One of my daughter's friends was over and saw it and said "What's that?" I said==see all the candy wrappers and things--it's garbage from the UK.  He said "'That's weird ".  and walked away..  I guess us trashpoets are destined to not be understood----thanks for the great and inspired piece!

I thought it was cute too. He's 9.  He probably wondered how someone could send someone candy wrappers with no candy, not realizing the trash is the candy to me:)

nice to meet you too Mail Art Martha :)

thanx thanx really thanx:)

Hi Mail Art Martha!--so good to hear from you and thanks for being a friend. Of course I remember you and your projects. I've been to your original blog and have seen the e-books. Found my mail art in them, so thank you for including my postcards. FYI: I know Patti Bristow-- we are in a book arts group together. The group organizes the Book Arts Jam at which I'm displaying mail art received this year (including yours).  I've posted the announcement postcard.

I'm delighted that you have sent something for my Call. Thank you and I'll see you in the mail.