April 2012 Blog Posts (355)

Great fat envelope of stuff from Austin- TEXAS!! This was a belated birthday pack and my first mailing from Austin. A BIG Robbie the robot stamp, I remember him making a guest appearance on Lost In Space! Thanks so much Austin! LOVE IT!! I'm preparing your return mail already!!…

Laura P

Katerina…

Thanks for the lovely mail art!!!!

Giuliana

Angie & Snooky (ATC cards plus a lot of fun stuff :)…

Last week I received two great postcards. And both of them sent me mail at the same time I sent them mail so our mails got crossed in the mail!

First, from Angie a fantastic postcard feauring M.I.A. one of my favorite musicians (at least I believe that's her!). I just love Angie's art style of collage, layering, shapes.

Then a postcard from Steph Dodson.…

I am very happy to hear from Bruno again. This new piece he sent me is very much in the line of his work, exploring textures, shapes, layers, soft tones. He is another aficionado and very successful user of the Re- concept. I hope this is a sign that he is returning to mail art? Bruno, thank you very much, you will soon get something from…

Vizma has such an impressive collection of stamps, they make for great envelopes. I could immediately tell this one was from her. The red bag? The ROOT stamp? Maybe... Inside, I could have a closer look at the famous octopus (NOT a…

Alicia Starr sent this great threedimensional piece, love this foil!

DK herself sent this great package: It seems that there are more formalities for the common DKult member than I realized before! Now I have to fill out this: 

Has anyone experience with this kind of commitment to…

Vizma Bruns sent this funny card full of fish confusion. What am I - a catfish? A rabbitfish? A clowntrigger fish? Superlustig, Vizma, I love it!  Especially the clown rolling his eyes... Thank you!!…

Carina sent this wonderful card with a text from a book about Leonardo da Vincis work and life. The underlying foto is just "zauberhaft", you can feel how hard these men were working. 

On the backside Carina asks:…

Received this super 3D-card today from Sarah Churchill, it's her birthday today, so I'm lucky that I got the present ;-)…

For Mim of the IUOMA

I've been really into found poetry lately, maybe because everyone seems to be talking about words these days. My friend just got a book published-a REAL BOOK!

For fellow Canadian Goop, who is planning a mail art tour out to the East Coast this summer! A little bit of love and encouragement from out my way!…

More collages on my blog: Susannia Bildschneiderei

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa)

April 14, 2012 - Continuing the documentation of the two visual poetry editions that resulted from the collaborative mail-art book…

Thank you Guido!

Thank you Cara!

Besides greetings from ZKK I received a lovely stamp on the Titanic and a Xbook "A Victorian Lady's Guide to Anti-Zombie Weaponary", very handy! Thank you Louise!…

Thank you for all the welcome messages and advice everyone. It's good to be here and I'm excited to see things unfold.

Tomo