March 2020 Blog Posts (171)

How Great! I love Jimmy's work!

Isn't thi beautiful! I love the textures of the fabric and also the mesh print on the plant!

This yellow envelope with a drawing of a yellowhammer arrived today from Sabrina. The picture seems to be a coloured pencil drawing (?) and is absolutely incredibly detailed. Thank you!

The post is still operating here, but many post offices are closed. I'm glad I have a good supply of…

Thanks Stan!

All the way from Hannover, Germany.

Beautyful artwork, Sabrina!

Thank you :-)

A big manila envelope with many colorful stamps and stickers affixed, from Adam Roussopoulos of Chaska, Minnesota (ahoy ahoy, new amigo).

Inside, I find:

* A stapled 8.5x11" book of text collage

*A sheet of pix of Bourbon the Dog and another of Tofu the Cat

*A page of pix of various POST NO BILLS signs

*A page of different US POSTAGE PAID stamps

*THIS MAY BE A MANIFESTO.

Thx for the neato surprise, Adam Roussopolous; see you in…

Keep those scissors going!

Selections from WIPE 124 which arrived in my mailbox today. A really strong issue to. …

So special to see mail art from Vittore in Italy, his portrait by DKA post,

artistamps and other goodies , too.

This mail art arrived just before the lock down in Greece, March 11.

And…

From Arizona, many things arrived some weeks ago,

A nicely stitched SPRING card,…

Closed routes. Delivery of mail and parcels is not possible to: Djibouti, Ecuador, Philippines, French Polynesia, Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Libya, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Caledonia, Peru, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen.

At the destinations below we see delays due to COVID-19: Argentina, Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Brazil, Belize, China, Canada, Chile, Germany Estonia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, France Guinea Bissau, Hong Kong, Honduras, India,…

Thank you, Penny! 

I haven't sent out much recently so I haven't expected a lot to arrive but I have here a nice little pile of goodies from Carmen Kennedy. Katerina N. Bonniediva. Charlotte Geister. Mark Sommerfield. and  Reed Altemus.  I will post some scans later.   If I can manage to get things posted I will do.  There is a rumour of something big happening tonight so maybe runs to the post office will be banned.  Wait and see. 

Life seems to be making itself overlarge in my art activities at the…

such a fun mail art frame!   thank you!

Here is a link to an interview with longtime mail artist Mark Bloch that appears in the March 2020 issue of Brooklyn Rail. Mark is recognized as a "historic figure" who was close to Ray Johnson:

https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/art/MARK-BLOCH-with-Megan-N-Liberty

Disclaimer: I think this is a great article but friends know I'm no huge Mark Bloch fan (and Mark is not a fan…