January 2011 Blog Posts (189)

Mail Art Received today 21 January 2011

I had to blog this,  because its just a fantastic.  I quoted from the Love Song of Prufrock earlier this week.  I have to do it again when confronted with Alfonso’s work :

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T S Eliot

“I have seen them riding seaward on the waves

Combing the white hair…

                                         ARTE CORREO – CONVOCATORIA – MAIL ART

                Tema:  “DESEO PARA NUESTRO MUNDO”

               Técnica: Libre.

               Tamaño: mínimo 10 x15 cm

                               Máximo A4

               Enviar a.

               Claudia Ligorria

               Constitución 1742 PB…

A great package came with two others manila packets today...a good mail art day! Large packet has great reminders of good foodsies! And then it opens to a great collage

The world sticks with UHU! And so does Herr Erni...even GREEK…

Mail Art received now now.

You all know what Val's envelopes look like - right? Most of us at one or another time have had the pleasure of receiving his square missives - to be opened or not.

BUT!!!! I dont think any ONE of them has had a package like this.  Except mine.…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa)

January 19, 2011 - Cheryl Penn sent this fascinating word weave (below) along with some of her distinctive style of asemic writing (above). I…

My first ever envelope from Australia arrived last week. Until now I only admired Helen's work on other people's blogs, but I am now the proud owner of one of her cards. A big slice of Australia for me, starting with the kangaroo envelope (love it!).

The card is a book page decorated with painting, postal stamps, rubber stamps? (not sure) and... one of Helen's silky…

FLUXUS ARTWORK!! )))…

...especially when I figure it out. Eventually.

I found this exquisite postcard  with my mail today.

Thank you "man of mystery"!…

Ideal, indeed. Inside the main envelope were three smaller packages:…

 Mail Art Books

Just in case some of you were wondering what happened to your art once it reached the bottom of the world, here is the latest mail art book I have compiled with mail from all over the world.  It was begun in July last year.  Titled 19^th July 2010 – 31 December 2010 it holds many of the mail art pieces I have received during that period which are of  similar size.    If the artwork was A6 size and the envelope bigger, the envelope was cut to fit.  Other than…

Mail Art Received second week January 2011.

 Judith has contributed three  beautiful photo montages for The World is a Town project.  As many of you know, The Novgorod Codex, dating back to the 11^th century resulted in an artist’s book The World is a Town which has slowly been fragmented into the world.  The writer so long ago laments his own personal position - a surprisingly postmodern global village lament. All the contributions I receive will form Volume 2  of…