Thom Courcelle's Blog – January 2013 Archive (6)

Snaps From/For Mr. Hamby

Sent some "shiny" ephemera to Dustin by request and recieved a shiny package in return.  It included Trashpo, Xeroxpo, a Hand-drawing, and a little plastic figurine.  There was definitely a military theme running through everything...

A xerox of the artist's hand wearing camoflage from days in the marines...…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 17, 2013 at 4:11am — 1 Comment

Experience Witchy Words... Or Symbols... Or Asemics

A few pieces that provide a bit of alchemical mystery--verbally or symbolically.  And, quite a bit of alchemical magic of the postal art variety...

Silver and Gold with symbol asemics from Rachel Freeman (Missouri, USA).  SHINY!!!  It deserves a gold star, but it's already got a GOLD HEART!

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 17, 2013 at 3:50am — No Comments

GrimMan's Head -- A Tough Nut to Crack

HOw much merriment could some mail art make if some mail art could make merriment?  Turns out... A LOT!!

Gosh DANG IT, David Stafford!!  A smile on my face has offically CRACKED--unlike the head of GrimMan, but possibly like the tooth of the Green Dragon.  A better shot of the "episode" to be able to get a sense of the drama...…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 16, 2013 at 3:41am — 2 Comments

Folded Poem from Marie Wintzer

I have seen--it seems--some rather amazing poetry included on this site and inclusive of many mail art pieces recently.  It does my heart good.  Poetry has saved my soul many times over.  And though I shant wish to proselytize poetry upon any of the masses that define themselves as verbal art-agnostic, I would like to celebrate a recent mailing from Japan that might make you see the light.  You might find yourself verse-converted...…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 16, 2013 at 3:10am — 7 Comments

All Kinds of Anniversary Celebrations...

Some of the mail art I've received in recent months has celebrated the endurance of Mail Art through the postal system...

I have been remiss in acknowledging this WINNING piece of mail art from Ursula Rodgers... I've been keeping it on top of the 'received' pile because I've been enjoying it so much.  Ursula is a similar-souled artist--she's a charity knitter,…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 15, 2013 at 3:17am — No Comments

Holiday Re-Hash

Sorry to have been absent for so long--the holiday season is one of the busiest times at my work place, plus I seem to be having some difficulties with my home computer not functioning very well on the IUOMA site lately. (I've tried using different browsers, but I think my computer is sufficiently old enough and been surpassed by so many system upgrades that the platform can't handle things anymore--which means having to buy a new computer soon...UGH.  Sometimes being on the technology slow…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on January 15, 2013 at 2:33am — 2 Comments

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