Michael Leigh

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

Oooh! What a lovely photo! I do not think we are going to see snow very soon this year.

Hi Michael I have been doing a good clean up and found a CD with free software from Which? And it has Serif Page Plus, the DTP program I was telling you about. I use it a lot, for documentations, pdf, books, cards, anything. I can send it to you if you still want it. It is much better than Word.

I am having great fun with Issuu, thank you for passing the tip on. Your latest offering is very nice as are all of them, do you know how much space they give for free?

Love to Hazel and Archie

Hi Michael I received a very strange email from your account that directed me to a seeminly inocuous ad but on trying to close the ad a requester told me to click OK which of course I did not do. Instead I went to task manager and closed the whole lot. It did not seem to be the kind of thing that would come from you and it possible was going to put a virus or malware in my machine. I think your email address has been highjacked. Has any other of your friends contacted you? there was a long list of names some of which I recognized as mail artists.  May be it is something you did send after all, but I thought to check, better safe than sorry. Let me know through IUOMA what happened please.

another odd thing , the email was addressed to my old address which I do not use for mail art and you normally write to my nottwo.ma@yahoo.co.uk

I think?

Perils with Paulin but here came

Michael,

Well, I couldn't contact you on this I.U.O.M.A. without befriending you again

and wanting to get your email, phone number and address so that my two daughters, Gwyn (18) and Lauryn (21) could contact you while they're in London.

Great kids, they're artists...what else would they be other than crackerjack's kids?

Anyway, they landed in Iceland just an hour ago, will stay there overnight and

leave for London around 4:00 PM Icelandic time, whatever that is? They'll be 4 days in London and then off to Woof it for three weeks on an organic farm in Wales, not far from relatives. They'll be in Europe for nine weeks! France and Italy are on their itinerary. They are independent and didn't want Dad to come along!

Not much notice here, I realize, but I couldn't send them without mentioning you

and Hazel. You see, there are stories that you know about....Correspondence Novels and whatnot, that is....how you and Hazel were part of the characters and plots. I would have mentioned they visit Jarvis and Nahpro and Mark, but its been years I was in touch with them. Not that I wouldn't want to be again. 

OK, be well. Love visiting your website. What work!

Cheerssss,

Cracker

Hey Michael,

Keith Bates mentioned that you had quite a bit of interaction with Pete Horobin

So I have a couple of questions regarding namesakes, forsaken names, pseudo names. Can you tell me if Peter Haining and Pete Horobin are one and the same person? And DJ at FOMT...that would be David (Johnson?) And what does FOMT connote?

Hi to Hazel.

Crack

PS Where did Eric Finlay's archive go? 

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, October 30

send to:

TITO TRUGLIA

Via Torino 37

I-27100 Pavia

ITALY

Loved your altered envelope.  I have blogged it here: http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/mike-leigh-bungled-cel...

I remember the climax of the movie too well so I haven't been looking Michael! If I do happen to bump into LRRhood I'll don my body armour and scoot off in the opposite direction.

By the way your collage work is exceptional, how goes it with the glue addiction?

THAT'S A BRAVE LAD! Mummy must be so proud.  Me?  I'm still on the hard stuff... guess I have a tolueene tolerance, yeah we are martyrs to our art.

The back stroke?

Michael! so sorry, I had forgotten the Obrigado show. I shall put my opus in the post tomorrow. today is impossible. I  hope it arrives in time.

Happy times!

Michael my contribution to Obrigado is on its way. You will be surprised to see one of our 'sent and resent' envelopes. this one is 11 years old.

Happy Crimble to you all!

Invitation to participate:

http://garagen3gallerygac.blogspot.it/

Hi Michael, Life continues to be interesting.  I, too, rarely send out snail mail - even post-cards are prohibitively expensive.  Nonetheless, a little outreach now & then keeps the social juices flowing.  These days, any correspondence w/ someone I knew from 20 or 30 yrs ago is my secret way of finding out whether they're immortal.  

P.s. Did you know that I made a feature-length movie honoring my friendship w/ "Blaster" Al called "This Will Explain".  John M.Bennett has sd that he might issue it was a 'commercial' DVD.  really hope that happens.  I posted a link on IUOMA to a movie called "letter to Kem" that's related to "This Will Explain" & that's partially from the "Blasterthon!!!!!!" that was organized as a 2 wknd memorial for Ackerman in BalTimOre last June.

Hey Michael, I realised I omitted two pages of your wonderful book, so have put it right! http://monosemikodachrome.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/from-michael-leigh...  I want lots of people to see it, if they haven't yet!

I agree with the sentiments in your rant, dear Sir, the post office is the enemy now. I am working on a bookie and one of the design considerations has to be not only weight but thickness, as anything thicker than a butterfly's wing is considered a packet, so they can up the postage outrageously. Ohhh, my stars!

So Issuu here I come. I wish more of us would join.

Michael, I am a fine art uni student and was just going through my research to bind it and I see your work which I photocopied from a book earlier in the year.. I then see a IUOMA member sticker.. I'm recently a member here so didn't think anything of it before! I love your work so much, I am currently binding it into my research :) Anyway I would love to receive some mail art from you but no worries if not as I will send something to you anyway if you give me your address :) Thanks for inadvertently helping me with my degree! Molly

You know just after I sent you that message I was photocopying in uni and chose a page out of a mail art book and realised after I photocopied it that it was your work - again! So I must just really like the look of it! I'm sorry don't feel you have to send me anything! If you would like one of my collaged postcards inbox me your address, if not no worries and it was lovely to speak to you :)

Hi Micheal, I arrived home the other day to the mail art you sent me. Love the collages and the postcards. They are going to become a great part of my already vast postcard collection :) All the best, Molly

I'm very happy to connect with you here!  I miss seeing your work too and commenting on your photos, so maybe this place will serve as a good replacement.  I'll be sending you something in the mail soon!  A big hug to you, Hazel and Archie.

Hi Michael, I can't seem to figure out how to invite people after the fact, but I would like to check out my mail art call. Please don't feel obligated to participate, I think it may interest you though :) I'm not soliciting anyone, just a friendly invite to my first attempt at a mail art call :)

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/mail-art-call-60-s-pin-up-2?xg...

http://ambasciatadivenezialeonerosso.blogspot.it

Hi Michael

Thank you for including me and the creation of a UK group! thanks. plenty to entertain and amuse...I love the comic book style humor. Clare x

cassagliamailart.blogspot.it

Hi Michael, sorry for delay in replying. We were in communication around 2000-2001 I think. But also, long before that, I once delivered a friend in a sealed box to your International Mail Art Convention, in Lambeth, around about 1990 I reckon. Ben Part was his name, 'Part B' his alias. We then came in and made mail art together. It's a memory I still cherish! John Held Junior was also there, he helped me unload the 'parcel' from my 'delivery van'... Ben was not a small chap! I've long since lost touch with him. Marta Aitchson sent me some of your Ping Pong collaborative stamps which are lovely. Hope you're well and happy! Best wishes, Amrit

Thanks for the tip off, I found his website 'Part b' . Interesting to see what he's been up to!

Thanks for the info, Michael.

I may get stickers. Very cheap all 

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/monumentovostell

Thank you Michael, I'm sorry for my delayed reply, I don't get on the computer too much.  Yes I'm a mail artist in the UK, based in London.  I was wondering if you might have a UK mail artists directory.  I'm mainly interested in mail art swops, or contributing to various themed calls - I prefer that over adding and passing.  

Hi Michael, If you want to do a swop with me/UK add and pass let me have your address.  i've just added something to an add & pass from Laura so not really sure who to send it on to... 

ps I'm not on facebook/instagram/twitter, I'm a proper snail mail bunny

Michael, could you send me your postal address? I wish to include you in a September mailing to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fluxus Bucks. ~Jack Lattemann, Cascadia Artpost, 3116 Moore St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501-3517 USA ~ jackklattemann@comcast.net

Great to hear from you Michael! FYI, my email address is jackklattemann@comcast.net

You should receive the Hannah commemoration envelope soon. Yesterday I sent Hazel mail that she should received in the next week.

All the best,

Jack

19.12.19 Dare  Mister Michael Leigh,   ...Oh, to be in Manchester (at least for a couple of days)  Congratulations! "Curious Things" looks indeed most curious. Is that a Claes Olden burg  Rubber Stamp I see sitting on the topshelf of the vitrine??? Best Wishes (& deserving so )for your exhibition.SinCelery, Richard Canard

Please send me your postal address.

I love that orange dog!

I am also enjoying self isolation, we are taking it very seriously and started a week before the official date.

But I still have that I-cannot-cope-feeling. To think that some of my non-mail artists friends are bored. What is that?  Do you know?

This is for you, from Retailia with love.

Hi Michael, I contacted the Special Collections department about it recently - but they are not open so I haven't 'seen' any of it yet. Another online avenue of exploration for me to follow up at the moment - I am stumbling along. I am very intrigued by the history and development of mail art. I didn't really know anything about it until I stumbled into it as a result of these lockdowns. It's one of those, 'curious things'. 

07.01.21 Dare Mister Michael Leigh, ..."How do you highlight someone's name in red with a link?"----You must be one of those from  the olden times--- the snail mail people---whatta you call  em ---"Mail Artists" from the twentieth century. Hang in there & Good Luck, SinCelery, Richard Canard