January 2014 Blog Posts (288)

All 9 issues You can find here

Wow, eh? The US Postal Service found this too difficult to deliver. Apparently it didn't like the handwritten first "e" in Nadine's last name. This came back today and I'm still laughing:

See, after studying it for 42 minutes, I noticed their circle around "Wendell." There must be hundreds of Nadines at #209: …

Check out some Q&A with Red Letter Day about XPF -- three day mail art event here in SF in February. Hope some of you are coming...

I was very honored to be included in this mail art call for 2013....here are some of the documentation pages:…

Don't know about the rest of you but the holiday season has been long, wonderful and disruptive for me and mail art has arrived and sat in piles in my studio aching for documentation and replies.

Today the last of the family departed and when I made a path through the studio and started to examine the piles.  I am a bit daunted, for the moment, but also…

The Greek Post (ELTA) ..HELLenic Post, had to put it in safety wrap, but it arrived safely and happily.

Oh my, oh my, oh my! Just look what arrived in Greece from Heleen in the Nederland:…

The envelope gives it all away, no guessing who sent this. Its Mail Art Disorder !

and what a wonder is inside:…

Wonderful surprise in the mailbox today...New Year of the Horse, from Japan!

 This card created by Marie reminded me of the card Grigori Antonin

created for the Chicago FluxFest:…

The above words of wisdom were on the catalog of a wonderful event:

The event was Bosch...and the catalog has more than 250 images of the mail art received,

and all in full color!…

Get the Kack out. Aa? 

I can see straight through this Mail art piece.  The hole is bigger than the bite.

Thank you very much Erni.  You brighten my…

Washi tape and bar codes, what a great combo.  I would never had thought of that one.  Very original.

Thank you Katerina

Alicia always amazes me with her style.  How she can be so creative despite living in the most frozen part of the world is beyond me.

But WAIT!  

     This little beauty below, was found on the back.  I had lots of good compliments on this little drawing that it started me thinking.  I noticed that there were no copyrights mentioned anywhere so I took it…

...but, now that the Hamburg Affair is over, it's time for BOTH SIDES to drop the whole thing.  This is the International Union of Mail Artists...not the International Union of Kindergarteners.

What a great post of bits of collage for me.  Thank you, I will make sure to send something back from these pieces.  There were more than pictured here:

Also sent - a sheet of Joss Paper, which I will burn.  The envelope was large, 35 x 28 cm.  Thanks again, Laurence!…

by Nelly Arauz

http://www.quequen.unicen.edu.ar/mailart/?p=195

Published book here

Thank you very much to MAIL ART MARTHA for good advices!