April 2017 Blog Posts (137)

These gentlemen, who might they be?... seem to be surveying a city plan,

and the swimmers are floating happily above them,

with Elvis singing:…

Toni Hanner sent a fabulous envelope,

that i always unfold to see the Big Picture :-)

Beautiful BLUE and found poetry inside:…

In April I sent out a series of cards featuring snow geese. Some of the recipients asked how I made them.  Each card in the series is different, but with common elements. The card is Canson-mi-tientes paper which has been enhanced with watercolor crayon and over-written in white colored pencil with text from a poem by Carolyn Forche. The snow geese are hand-drawn, and then painted with acrylic paint.The envelopes feature a collage created with scraps of mulberry and other papers, plus a…

Mail art by IUOMA member Dopesick San Francisco (DSF) aka Michael Kelly (Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA)

April 29, 2017 - DSF and Karina the Dog have proven to be key contributors to the Karnival of Trash, which I think it is fair…

Mail art by IUOMA member by Eduardo Cardoso (Sines, Portugal)

April 28, 2017 - Here is a great package I received from Eduardo Cardoso that I've posted on Asemic Front. Eduardo has integrated asemics, vispo and the cut-up technique to great his own unique brand of image-text…

Eric sent me one of his envelopes that celebrate classic films. 

The stamps he used are gorgeous - they are printed using the intaglio technique, so have some raised lines, giving them a great tactile element that you can't appreciate in the…

I know, I said I wasn't blogging anymore, but this just cracks me up. The maker has even drawn a picture of Jackie's cul-de-sac on the postcard (to assist the postal carrier?) Love the instructions, especially to shape the dough…

Very rare postage on mail art from Finnbadger:

and inside, it's all about BUNNY!

...not RayBunny, but sweet bunnies instead!…

Great envelopes, great stamps, great letters - perfect packets!

Eva even wrote in green for spring, and the chicken and rooster in the stained glass window on the stamp is just amazing.

 I also enjoyed the not-quite-correct English on this…

A collage and an ATC from Tonipoet. Thanks Toni!



An ATC from Fleur. A new series from her I…

http://www.renateblaes.de/blog/mailart-fluechtlingerefugees-nr-41/

A packet full of wonders from the UK

and Mail Art Martha sends beautiful BLUE Spring...via Royal Mail, of course!

Original watercolour and inside...…

Don't miss this! "Isn't it rich..."

and in the same mail delivery

came mail art from Martha, too (see the other blog :-)…

Here's lookin' at you , Schneider!

and fun stamps.  too:

Thank you,

and watch the mail for more from…

Mail art by Ana Kawajiri (Brasilia, Brazil)

The mail art movement was at the forefront of experimentation with and circulation of copyart. Copyart is deeply associated with at least one Golden Age of mail art (in the 70s…

This has been mentioned elsewhere on the IUOMA platform, but I want to make sure members know about the John Dowd Fan Club show. This is classic work from the 70s & 80s with a Ray Johnson connection. The link features some great examples from the show:

https://www.printedmatter.org/events/589

Probably some of the members are perplexed by the fan club materials in the m-a network. Ray Johnson started some classic fan…

What a fantastic project that Jack Lattemann has created!

In fine details, there is a whole town for the "Peeps",…