April 2016 Blog Posts (226)

Nice to meet you in the mail, David!

Thank you Lynn, for the Moan Lisa honorary postcard related to the exhibition 26 Feb - 1 April.

with a little help from the cat...…

The envelope is fantastic and BLUE! "Love is Kind"

Specks of gold, too!

Linda created a very elegant "trashpo" card, with BLUE can tab:…

Like a reed in the wind...

With reds and ORANGE...and words of wisdom:

Thank you so much!…

We are closing in on WIPE 100!

And this edition has some fun prints on toilet tissues by mail art friends:

by Vizma:…

Always exciting to receive unexpected mail art.

Thank you, Alana, for this fun multi-media piece.

There are many misunderstandings about surrealism. Art historians have included it among artistic avant garde directions of the first half of the20th century . From their point of view surrealism has therefore been dead for at least 60 years. The term surrealism has entered the general vocabulary as description of something nonsensical, absurd. First of all, it is important to say that…

Today Diane Keys and Lucky Pierre are visiting Richard Canard in Carbondale, Illinois, USA.

Diane will be doing an interview that she is sharing on the internet. She is gathering questions on line or via telephone. This is happening in the Trashpo group on FB. But post your questions here & I will forward them if you want.

Here is Diane's message.

"Now taking questions for mail art legend and trashpo philosopher Richard Canard!!! I will post his answers…

All sorts of goodies from the Minneapolis Gnome - caution tape, envelope, glasses, and a new minizine!

This collage card is definitely "Made in Belgium",(or the UK?)

Sent from Belgium...Belgium butterfly postage ;-)

and marked 22 March, airport tragedy...remembrance.

Barcodes, of course, nice to know...to be colour…

The Peeps' adventures in a hand made edition from Jack!

Just amazing the work that went into this book:

And…

Ruud sent me an envelope with the backwards "2016" which makes me giggle whenever I see it. And a card stating the basic question of the ages, AND an Add & Pass! Yea!!!!! Thanks Ruud!…

MomKat -- stamps, clocks, jewels! A dual purpose card that can be used to celebrate Feb. 29 OR April Fool's Day! All done with MomKat love! Thanks!…

I received this beautifully enigmatic piece from Mark Russell (sorry I spelled the last name wrong on the photos!)  The envelope is spectacular front and back, especially the back, a work of art in itself. I don't know how it is made but it's fascinating to look at, like some mysterious code. If you look very closely at the back of the envelope, you can see the words "the swollen rivers" down near the left side....I just love it.…

Here's an envelope and little painting (oil, I'm guessing) that actually match, and a sweet little gold-flecked pony, from Grethe! Look at that thick purple paint on the flowers! And the dark background makes it look as though the flowers are being blown in a storm. I just love this! …