May 2020 Blog Posts (199)

You may have contributed to this one when I peeled off the postage stamps on mail you sent to me!

more photos on my blog…

2020. April Post from Lithuania.

I am very grateful to Mindaugas Žuromskas for the…

World Collage Day is Saturday,May 9th, 2020.

"World Collage Day is about artists taking TIME to connect across…

2020. April Post.

Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Žuromskas performs his prints on the letterheads of official institutions. Now I have received from him a print made on cash receipts from stores. Mindaugas carefully glued the receipts together, taping them together on the back; the result was an A4…

2020. April Post from USA.

Thanks Lauryn Welch (Brooklyn, USA). I received a small collage book, along with stickers for my own work. The book leaves a pleasant feeling: there is "internal" and…

A few years ago I got hold of this big square book that was badly damaged. I decided to fix up the broken spine and the pages that had seperated from the spine Then I started to art up the board cover.I painted the boards black and then used some sheets of handmade papers that were earthy greens and red/browns, and a large formica sample.…

Thank you for your letter and butterflies, Mike!

Another little batch of things made with latex house paint and food boxes.  For some reason "Ghost Club" has been rattling around in my head.

Looking forward to mailing some of this stuff out this week.

Wishing you all good health.…

My son Jackson and I have finished up our newest collaboration! I asked him what he would like to do next and he immediately said he would like to draw  robots. When looking at his drawings, I found myself thinking about these 1980's rubber stamp sets i have been looking at on ebay where you have all different cartoon parts or animal parts and you create your own "creature". I decided to separate all his bots and the final outcome was 14 robots and 42 individually carved stamps. I made boxes…

Vielen dank, Sabrina!

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So says The Art Newspaper in the article "A mail art renaissance is growing in the US—just as the postal service struggles to survive" that was posted on the 5th of May 2020. Read all about it here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/today-in-the-mail-art-made-for-you

I suggest we work four hands. You know my postage stamp collages. I have an incomplete collages: about 50% of the postcard is blank. I can send you these postcard, you will complete the collage and post the photo on the Internet. You will be able to keep the resulting collage.

I love love love vintage postcards! The three best things about this one: 1) the little mule 2) Keith's artistamp, 3) the UFO the Postal Service added to the top of the middle spire! Super nice, Keith! I don't think I've ever been there, I would have been a baby -- I was born in…