May 2011 Blog Posts (198)

**(sorry,but I can't attend!)shshsh....

Elaine Asplind Russell

I've been waiting on a important package for weeks. Although the package didn't show up today, I got this little gem in the mail instead.

Come dance with me through the pages of this tiny (4in /10cm square) booklet of 12 pages of wondrous color and movement from torn papers in true trashpo elegance:

Mim created this little wonder in Paris in 2009, from what appears to be a pamphlet for art…

Imelda sent this in response to my "bigger" art calls. I need to get on the ball and complete my portion of the promise. Great stuff.

I received a card of a mysterious artist, who cut up a Jackson Pollock painting and send it around in pieces. I don´t know if I have to cry now about the Pollock painting, or if I should be happy to be the owner of an original Pollock. Could somebody help me?…

Milan 16^TH of May 2011 -

MILAN AMONG THE TOP 5 DESTINATIONS TO VISIT THIS YEAR ACCORDING TO THE NYT: HERE’S WHY

It is one of the stars of the last year: Milan. The New York Times put it among the top 5 destinations that should not be missed in 2011. In the last year, despite the crisis, it…

But first a tour of the envelope and then the treasures within:

Upon Urban Exploration, don't miss that anti-hole whole, or two. Walk, don't run ;-)…

Its Marie’s birthday today. Birthdays are wonderful – they’re the day we began.   The day we begin to be formed through cultural influences, family ties, history and genetics.  The beginning of the search for personal identity. Serendipitously today, through a booklet Marie sent me I googled Alsace in France, a place of meaning for Marie. And wow – to come from a land that is so ancient, that its current population has blood strains going back to 1500BC – that for me is amazing, coming from…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

May 16, 2011 - What do you do after you've become a mail-art legend? Diane Keys (DK) has pioneered roadkill mail-art, re-birthed an obscure practice called Trashpo,…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Test Tower (Centralia, Washington, USA)

May 15, 2011 - A good friend to many of us in the network, Test Tower has released this incredible large post-card size piece that is part of his ongoing…

I received an intresting piece form De Villo. I see it as my introduction to asemic writing.

That is how I see the reds in the middle of the collage.

Joining the group of asemic writing will open up a whole new dimension in art for me. Never to old to learn new things.

The whole piece gives me a delicate an mysterious…

Sent to the Mail Art Call titled " The Art of Work " the Exhibition will be from May 7 to 30 at Zocalo's in Courtenay, BC, Canada as part of the 2011 Mayworks Festival.

{Acrylic, Permanent ink and collage on card and …