May 2012 Blog Posts (305)

Tje geisha tea house image with the poetic caption, "Drink this baby, it's atomic soda

It will blow your mind back to where it was" arrived from Marie. I also feel so honored to receive a piece of Japanese sign. Marie has always said how hard it is to…

Visual poetry by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa)

May 23 2012 - In this third anthology blog documenting chapters from the collaborative visual poetry book project headquartered…

The ARTErra is a rural art residency structure that support and encourage artistic creation and production.

Housed in a remarkably small rural village, you will find in ARTErra physical spaces and tools for the reception of the project / proposal of the artist or collective of different artistic disciplines.

In addition to a house with several recreational areas and facilities, the ARTErra has a "creation yard" area where are the work spaces (sound studio and booth capturing,…

KDJ, this one will make you laugh as well. arrived yesterday. The caption reads: "The Girls Loved Their Bean Bags But Dan had asked for an air rifle.

Barcodes are human too!  I wholeheartedly agree and love this card, the 3-D parts jump off the page and keep my eyes moving all around it.  I keep picking it up for another go.. Thanks Dean :)))))))))

Then our friend from Heidelberg sends I Do Smell Roses...I do too and I think it may be coming from my mailbox!  This is very cool, thanks Svenja :)…

First this BIG colorfully painted envelope

and inside this creepy but colorfully fun double sided painted collage which reads

The forest is strangely sinister

I think I heard someone's footsteps

But I don't see anyone...…

First this romantic man, looks adorable and feels great too!!!

Then these wonderful paperdolls.  They are hard to appreciate from this scan but they are wonderfully creative.  Not only do they stand on their own but each has an outfit sewn on them and if you look from the other side these little cuties look as if they are peeping over a white fence.  Thank-you very much Janine. What a treat, these little guys greeted me after being out of town :))))))…

The International Youth Arts Festival invites you and anyone between the ages of 5 and 26 years to take part in this year's international postcard swap: ‘Let Me Introduce Myself’

Take a piece of postcard sized card (15cm x 10.5cm) and be creative with any material you can think of be it oil paint, ink, dried pasta, buttons, pictures and introduce yourself to the world!…

Look at this super-trash-po-japanese(?)-Thai-card. It's super DK, I love the structure, something only you could make! 

And I'm laughing here about "Others love your dramatic side" - really?

Thanks, Diane,…

Cheryl Penn has alreeady done a very nice blog about this piece which can be found here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-new-alexandrian-library-south-africa-boekie-collection-blog-2?xg_source=activity

However, I would like to point out some of the finer details of Marie's work.  In the past few pieces that Marie has sent me,…

As we know, two heads are better than one.  Thank you Janine.

Lovely painting with a red UFO.  Aren't all UFOs red?  Thank you Katerina

Very nice items arrived in Greece today.(Punch cards! From that ancient early computer system?)

Will use for trashpo, for sure!

And what a great eye-of-the-dragon ATC! Who would not just love it!

And a double-sided arty…

Another 3M wonderful surprise.

I received a picture post card of the village of Carina Granlund.  One the back of the picture it reads; "Taken on the 13th of August 1983, the day there was no snow on the ground."  What can I say?  Get me on the next plane for Finland!

'Been patiently waiting for a stitched portrait from Sarah, promised some time ago...

but oh, so, worth the wait! This is DIVINE! The textures fantastic:

And the details just want to be examined closely!…

Dean, not a fragment of glitter out of place. and 'two r's better than one', you are the bestest. thanks dear, you always make me laugh. …

Hijacked Carina, hope this is ok. 2-sided from Torma, surreal collage on one side (LOVE IT) and what looks like a water colour on front. This cards holds a special place in my heart. My grandmother was born and raised in Budapest. Conflicting stories about her childhood range from being a gypsy living on a boat to a classical pianist.

She made Baklava every Christmas, this i know. Thanks Torma. …