Tomoe N

oh i am very jealous! you are living my dream...going back and forth between japan and SF. for a while i was thinking of moving to osaka. i am sure i will still move there one day...and i am very excited!!!

we are putting together some benefit shows for japan. maybe you will be able to come?

Thank you! I'm sure this information will be greatfully received; two things you can do to help are i) make a Peace Crane -- look at the Peace Crane Group for details; and ii) send a YOU postcard -- details in the Tombstone Group pages.

Stay in touch and thanks again. Regards, Val

Dear Galicias,

I am sorry if I misunderstood your original question: it is clear now.

Really the only thing that I can say to you is to do what you think is best -- you are one of the 'local experts' who knows what is happening on a daily basis in Japan and knows what best can be done there and for all of those in Japan. People like myself (I am in the South of France) can only follow developments on TV (especially CNN, BBC World, etc), various internet sites, comments from friends, and the developments that are reported back to us from IOUMA colleagues. We are at a great distance -- geographically, emotionally, physiacally, and so on -- and can only experience at secondd hand what is happening in Japan.

Yes of course you can send link up 'Solidarity' with MMIX Arts Fund in Sendai Myagi. Please do whatever you think is necessary, appropriate and timely. I started the Solidarity Group, but I do not 'own' it -- each of its 100 members, and IUOMA itself, will, I am sure, give you whatever help they can.  The Group empowers each of us to help in any way possible. One example of what we as Mail Artists in IUOMA are doing is the 'Peace Crane Group': are you aware of it?

Yes, do start a new mail art call if it will help things: I will be one of the first to contribute something to it, and if I can help in any way within IUOMA, then please let me know.

I hope that your personal circumstances are such that you can return to San Fran soon. What subject are you graduating in?

It's good to hear that you are selling some of your work:may it continue.

Do, please let me know if I can help in any way.

Best wishes, Val

Thanks you for replying Tomoe. Nice to know you're well... I've been at my son's school telling them about the Peace cranes project, and the have already made more than 1000. I'd want to ask you if it's a good idea to send them to the Hiroshima Paper museum,,, or you can tell me anywhere else.

I'll be sending something soon. Greetings from the south.

Gracias Tomoe!!! It's a good site, and we really wanna help the tsunami victims. I'll tell the teacher to send the cranes there.

Best wishes... and go on with your spanish lessons!!!

Japanese neighbors. They will want our help more.

I want to help you help them if I am able.

Rose

I am a member of a gathering of artists from all over. We have a blog 

http://www.plushpossumstudio.blogspot.com

At this blog I will post an update. This will show Americans who read our blog what they may do to help.

Thank you very much for including me in your idea.

Rose

a reminder, here is the invitation to pARTicipate in the SECREt eXCHANGE exhibitions...pass the invitation on to your friends, and let me know on my page if you will or won't be able to contribute; go to IUoMA Events...or click on the link http://secretexchange.yolasite.com/   thx, Terry Reid, and hope to hear from you

ps
(in facebook it is at :https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000748977585 )
send me a friends request to speed up communications

Arrived yesterday 22 July. Thank you for your interesting packet.  Reflection photographs are among my very favorite.  Your collage paper looks handmade and cloth-like.   TYou were daring to run that paper through your printer and it came out beautifully.  Thank you. See you in the mail.

Your paquet took only 4-5 days to arrive. Thanks.  For me, all replies are appreciated whenever they arrive.

better now than never???

i'm not sure which one is the one with the kimono,

you'll have to point me to it.

i make a collage every day or two, and don't really keep track of old ones! ;-D

oh!

that's my oscar wao piece! ;-D

yes, i think all three are geishas; at least according to google images - the middle one being a "zombie geisha!"

i'll make a note and send you a copy of that in the mail today!!!

i'm an off and on student, also a dad.

i wasn't working quite so furiously when i was taking class, but right now i have no classes so i am on a full time art binge. i was making a collage every day pretty consistently, but lately they are getting more involved, so often they take two days to complete -- but, they are triptychs, so in a way it's kind of like making three every two days.

as for why i friended you, i just saw you pop up on the iuoma main page and went to your profile and hit friend! ;-D

about the zombies:

i used to volunteer in the library and noticed more and more zombie books coming through the system - it got me curious why zombies are getting more popular. as carla cryptic put it, it's an anthropology curiosity, i want to crack a cultural phenomenon and figure out "why zombies?"

thanks for the video links! ;-D

am i in art school? no.

i just take classes at local community college,

mostly because it gives me something to do but also

the government gives me a grant to go to school,

so i get a few hundred dollars for taking a couple of classes.

i have only been doing mail art since february 2011,

it's really become a significant part of my life since.

when i went to school, i went for writing because i

like writing poetry a lot. but my wriing teacher

kept pushing me more toward art, so i did lots of art.

and i'm glad because i like doing the art a lot!!!

i do my collages using GIMP, you should try it!

awesome!!!

i look forward to your reply.

jennie gave me my first FLUXUS postcard, long before i knew what FLUXUS was all about.

i ended up making it into a FLUXUS kit for a teacher at my daughter's school, after i did a art project with the kids there:

http://moomoosuperhero.blogspot.com/2011/05/flux-kit.html

the postcard is from jennie, and the chinese box is from Skybridge Studios, who is more active here on IUOMA than jennie is. they are both incredibly sweet people and i love the fusion of their works in this box. it is one of my favorite pieces of art i have made, and it didn't take any effort really at all. just a little glue and some love!

but no, i have never met anyone from IUOMA.

i rarely leave the house, let alone my town!

there is a mail artist here on iuoma from iowa city, alicia starr,

but we've yet to cross one another's paths in real life!

Thank you, Tomoe! Very beautiful mail art from Japan has arrived in Greece. Your painting of SanFran is lovely, as is also the work of your partner. Thank you so much, dear friend!

Bonjour Tomoe! Thank you for the very nice 'Abstract Cosmos' card that arrived here safely this morning: great stuff. And I liked the dog paper clip on the back of it. Are you having any success in selling your art? I hope so. (If you want to be my Japanese agent and sell some of my art, I'm sure that we could work something out).

I'll be mailing you something back at the start of next week.

Thanks again, and....Bon Weekend.

Regards, JE Sweefoo

Hello Tomoe, if you see or write to Ryosuke please send him my greetings and thank him for the Brain Cells he sent to Greece. It is an wonderful collection of 30 Brain Cells. And I am very honored to receive them. Many thanks to him and all his work at Brain Cell!

or

https://www.facebook.com/groups/157924880955229/184434991637551/#!/...

Tomoe, Happy birthday greetings from Greece!

The Diary of a Young Girl
Theme: a Mailart exhibition dedicated to Anna Frank and to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th, 1945: death camp Auschwitz was liberated
Size and technique free
No jury, no returns, no fees
Exhibition in 2012 in Giulianova, Italy
Documentation online gallery and catalogue to all participant if it will possibile (because of sponsor)
All works via post, no email please.
Info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com o image000@libero.it
Deadline to be received January 2nd, 2012

Isabella Branella
via Giardino 12
I- 64021 Giulianova Lido
Teramo
ITALY

Thanks for the goodies Tomoe! Cool!

I like all kinds of magazines... ones that have Japanese cartoon characters maybe or different fashions or geographical locations.. I think a newspaper would work also though. I will find something creative to do with any paper you send me :)

Many thanks for the mail art - good to hear from you :-) X

Hi! I'm so sorry I just saw the comments you left on my page. I will be watching my mailbox for the magazine and will send you some mail art very soon! Thanks so much! :)

Hi Tomo, Nice to see you here on IUOMA too. Cheers from Oakland.

Thank you, Tomoe. Your very nice mai art collage arrived in Greece today. I like all the details and I liked very much the "tea bag"! It is on this blog:

Mail Art from Japan: Tomoe Nakamura in Osaka

Many thanks for the mail art!
Greetings from Bordeaux.

DOINGPOETRY IN THE WORLD

Mailart project

Doingpoetry: Poetry, Art, Society

Free size, medium and technique

No fee, no jury, no sales, no returns

The show will be held in Pavia in 2012,    

 November 23-25

At Santa Maria Gualtieri during PAVIART POETRY Festival 2012

Organization by O.M.P. and Farepoesia

Documentation: all submissions will also be posted

on the web sites under costruction in http://www.farepoesia.it/mail-art.html  

info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com

Artworks should be sent by snail mail

DEADLINE to be received

2012, November 10

send to:

TITO TRUGLIA

Via Torino 37

I-27100 Pavia

ITALY

Grupo Toca do Lobo - Mail Art Call

Convidamos voces para participarem do nosso Projeto de
Arte Postal
Mago ou Magi, plural da palavra Persa antiga magus,
significando tanto imagem quanto "um homem sábio",
que vêm do verbo cuja raiz é "meh", significando grande, e em sânscrito,
“maha". Mago usualmente denota aquele que pratica a magia ou ocultismo;
no entanto, pode indicar também alguém que possui conhecimentos e habilidades
superiores como, por exemplo, quando se diz que um músico é um "mago dos teclados",
pois toca com perfeição o instrumento musical.

Tema: Mago
Técnica: Livre
Tamanho: A4 ( no máximo)
Inicio do Projeto: 2010
Término do Projeto: 3 / 11 / 2013

Qualquer pessoa pode participar,
Artistas e qualquer pessoa ao redor do mundo, enviando trabalhos com o tema “Mago”.
Não Haverá Júri e os trabalhos recebidos não serão devolvidos.
Os Trabalhos serão catalogados e estarão disponível no blog da Toca do Lobo sem valor comercial.
Exposição dos trabalhos online no blog oficial da Toca do Lobo e exposição em espaço público.
Os trabalhos podem ser enviado para o endereço:

Grupo Toca do Lobo
Rua: Nossa Senhora Aparecida, novo Nº69 (antigo 28) Apto 21
Vila Fátima – Guarulhos – São Paulo
Brasil
Cep: 07191-191
email: tocadoloboartepostal@hotmail.com
blog: www.tocadoloboartepostal.blogspot.com

Happy Birthday greetings from Greece, Tomoe!

"XRONIA POLLA!"

Happy Birthday Tomoe!!

Happy New Year to you!!"

So you saw the invitation for the Recycle at the Tokiwa Gallery in Tokyo - we did that in either 1971 or 1972.  So, you see, Rain Rien Nevermind has been at this business for a long time.

Where did you see the invitation?  I would like to have a look at it after all these years.

Hi Tomoe! I'd like to send you some mail art! Let me know if that's okay with you and I'll start sending! :)

That's alright if you can't send me mail art right away. I'd like to receive some from you when you're free. :) Good luck pursuing your love of art! :)

hi i'm italian :) I would like to swap with you

sorry for my english, you are a good artist  

Roberto Bergamo

viale Leopardi 78

73100

Lecce

Italia

So glad we were united through other friends and Washi tape! :D I have already sent the original of this piece to another mail artist, but thought you might enjoy seeing it. Have a beautiful day! :D

Sweet! :D

nice to meet you, too! :)