"Hi Sandra, I am so very late in thanking you and posting your fabulous portrait piece. I put it up on the PORtRAITS group. It is one of my all-time favorite pieces of mail art to receive! Thank you very very much!
Jan Hodgman"
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"This is a portrait sent to me by Sandra Gaches. I don't know if it's a self-portrait but it sure is a truly great piece! "
DECOS - Do you miss them?
Do you miss Decos? What’s a DECO? It’s a sort of mail art friendship book, but with a theme. Each book has around 6 to 10 pages inside and a THEME. You do a page according to your art style and following the theme, and you mail it to another DECO person. It’s like an ADD/PASS, in a way. When it’s full, it goes back to the person who started it.I started doing DECOs back in 2004, but then people started making them too heavy, gluing all sorts of heavy embellishments, etc., and I couldn’t afford…See More
Only Originals
A group dedicated to those who are willing to make and share only original mail art. So, in this case, no copies!See More
Mail Art Book # 44 - Sharon Silverman
"You must live in a very colorful creative community! Great works!"
"Volume Forty Four has arrived! How fun to see my work juxtaposed with Sharon Silverman's wonderful
oeuvre. It's inspiring to see one's own art like this "in print"! What a huge project, Sharon, and what a great…"
"We grow 'em big out here in the Pacific Northwest!
With love from She Who Talks To Crows, aka Zen Jan."
"YES, the best! Message from the universe!"
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"It comes in colors everywhereShe combs her hairShe's like a rainbow"
An envelope lined with a rainbow painted on a paper towel, a card manufactured with fabric and thread embroidered with rhinestones and sequins.
"Ela vem em…"
Just for SQUARES!
There was a prompt from CreativeSprint to make something just using squares. I'd forgotten how I'd learned to love squares while teaching 2D design with Wucius Wong and Josef Albers Interaction of Color (years ago) I thought, Wow, there must be other Square lovers out there. Thanks to Katerina for the name idea. See More
"Received today thank you! Something headed your way soon."
"thanks for your words and cards. Where did you live in Japan?
My son and family live near Nagoya in the small village of Mihama in Aichi prefecture."
JUST SITTING (again)
"Hi Iver, Are you a Zen guy? One Zen term for "meditation" is Just Sitting.
Sit on! Jan"
"Here's a great idea for a way to distribute mailart (in case yours is piling up around you...)
https://youtu.be/CyAyH2oDgF4"
Profile Information
- Mail-Artist since:
- 2004, maybe I could count 8 years of correspondence from a Japanese Zen monastery back in the mid-80's......
- My Website (without http://):
- http://www.mailart365.com/author/zenjan/
- Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
- feeds me, community around creativity,
why not? let's use mail to enliven and enlighten, not just stoke the Desire Fires with catalogues
- My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
- 3619 W. 4th St.
Anacortes WA 98221
USA
jhodgman@zenjan.com
Jan Hodgman's Photos
Comment Wall (179 comments)
- At 7:18pm on April 9, 2021,
Luís Filipe Gomes said…
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"It comes in colors everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow"An envelope lined with a rainbow painted on a paper towel, a card manufactured with fabric and thread embroidered with rhinestones and sequins.
"Ela vem em cores em todos os lugares
Ela penteia o cabelo dela
Ela é como um arco-íris"Um envelope forrado com um arco-íris pintado num papel toalha, um cartão manufacturado com tecido e fio bordado com brilhantes e lantejoulas.
OBRIGADO!
- At 4:24am on March 16, 2021,
Peggy huff said…
thanks for your words and cards. Where did you live in Japan?
My son and family live near Nagoya in the small village of Mihama in Aichi prefecture.
- At 11:02pm on March 15, 2021,
Olivia Arrow said…
Received today thank you! Something headed your way soon.
- At 9:09pm on February 6, 2021,
Welcome to the water. Tank you.
- At 9:39pm on February 4, 2021,
Thanks Jan. The bagpiper is yours!
- At 11:42pm on January 30, 2021,
Mah Nu said…
Hi Jan,
Thanks for the comments on my blog posts :)
Sending you a Free Image Exchange envelope today!
~Mah Nu
- At 12:38am on December 25, 2020,
Tyler Hannigan said…
Thanks for the beautiful abstract post card.
- At 7:46pm on November 5, 2020,
Susan Gnaedinger said…
This is sue gnaedinger. I received your postcard and i am putting it in a mat. The design is very balanced
- At 3:35am on June 16, 2020,
De Villo Sloan said…
Hi Jan, thanks for another great contribution to Asemic Front; I've documented it. I'll post pics on the IUOMA-Ning site but won't re-post blogs anymore due to the excessive technical difficulties w/ Ning. I hope you continue as a contributor to AF2. Regards, DVS
https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2020/06/asemic-portal-by-jan-hodgman.html
- At 8:57pm on June 5, 2020,
Edamameg said…
Thank you for your kind welcome! I'm putting some zines into the mail to you today! :)
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Faabulous piece by Luis Filipe Gomes of Portugal
Posted on March 5, 2021 at 6:45pm 1 Comment 2 Favorites
I will frame this and treasure it!
Fabulous Stamp Collage
Posted on October 21, 2019 at 1:08am 2 Comments 1 Favorite
from Ilya in Moscow:
Mail from Cherub
Posted on September 17, 2019 at 11:04pm 1 Comment 1 Favorite
I'm finally getting this piece up from Cherub, but didn't get the envelope scanned, also fine. I'm thinking of using this as a luggage tag as it's nicely laminated! (Can't get the photo to show up, waaanh)
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