March 2015 Blog Posts (229)

I think, if you look closely, you'll see the foundations of much of the work that now finds its way into the Tate, the Whitney, the Elgin St. Vincent de Paul. A great animated cloud of pigeons erupts from St. Mark's Square.  Freeze Frame. A Non sequitur to clear the palette. So...I received this boekie from Rebecca and Diane who jointly filled this tome called…

From the venerable Richard Canard, a fellow curmudgeon. It's a somewhat sad commentary on the state of red state fashion. Thank you, Richard.

In certain mail art circles I seem to be the go to guy for climate disaster. At least…

Mail art by IUOMA member Jesse Edwards (Jesarchives) (Carcassonne, France)

March 19, 2015 - Jesse Edwards sent this work from France although he has roots in California and thus qualifies as part of my ongoing West…

BUTTONS...(washi circles :-)

It was a thick packet that arrived in Greece last week, full of wonders: see :-)…

I made a card last night. 

Front and back 

Front is linocut printing with stamp ink attached doughnuts wrapper and back is free collage. (ended up having 3 animals in image) …

Sorry the photo is blurred but this is tea bag card instruction. This is one of the inspiration of paper making.

DK asked so I explained ↑ in English... 

In my idea I make my own or use…

Mail art by IUOMA members Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK) and Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

March 18, 2015 - Collaborative doodling is a new craze sweeping the network that originated with Diane Keys aka the Queen of…

See the kitKat? Lynne created this cut-out for coming SPRING!

'Brought lots of Spring Sunshine here…

Birdie on the envelope from Mary Grellner...

Woof, woof...Could that be Snooky? Just a tiny detail of a nice collage,

to the right of CREATIVITY:…

Always fascinating to receive mail from John,

stampings on the envelope...he's gone "5089", too:…

Mail art by IUOMA member Linda French (Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA)

March 18, 2015 - Collage using cut-up letters amounts to a subgenre within asemics, and this method of composition is not as easy as it might first appear.…

Thank you, ladies.....and secret admirer. No card from Katerina would be complete without....

It's amazing how natural it…

Something very special from tictac in far off Starnsberg: A Large Cheese.

A card with cut paper relief that says "Say Cheese" unfolds to reveal an alphabet with letters missing here and there to give the effect…

Mail art by IUOMA member Brooke Cooks (Seattle, Washington, USA)

March 17, 2015 - A belated but heart-felt thanks goes out to Brooke Cooks in Washington State for sending this wonderful valentine greeting. Hopefully,…