June 2015 Blog Posts (190)

The next day I was spoiled again. Look at all the beautiful things I got from Stan Askew. Thank you so much for your art and the other goodies. And the beautiful envelop with the Janis Jopling stamps and the special stamping was a joy for me and my postman. He is also enjoying all the beautiful mail I get. He has asked me a while ago, why I get such special mail and loved my story about it. Now he always smiles when he sees me. I think it makes his job more enjoyable. Thanks so…

At the beginning of this week I received an other beautiful mail from Shellie Lewis, packed with goodies. A drawing (or is it a print) of a sad lady, a zine about music, a atc with the explanation about the art of atc's and for a first time: inchies! It is all so beautiful and now I have made my first inchies. Love the process of this tiny pieces of art. ATC is not new to me. Shellie, you have spoiled me again. Thank you so much.…

Last week I received mail from Moan Lisa. In there was a postcard that was partly made and I was asked to finish it. I love that so much, that I started at once and have send it already back. But I totally forgot to take a picture. :-(

Thank you for the beautiful arti stamps. I love them. Later I will also do the second add and pass.

Mail art by IUOMA member Thomas Brown (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

June 5, 2015 - Given that, like Richard Canard, he primarily uses the compact postcard format, Thomas Brown manages to squeeze a lot of concepts into his…

Check out the book.

choose your direction....

Buz has this on-going project with KEYS for the old Ford,

but the old Ford just got smashed, oh dear! :-(…

High in the German hills of Wörthsee there is a deep forest.  So deep that no Mail Artist has ever been able to venture into it and come out alive.  Now for the first time ever, other Mail Artist can see what beauties can be found within this deep forest. 

The only thing it is missing is a polka band!   But wait, there is more.…

Mail art by IUOMA member Mars Tokyo (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

June 4, 2015 - I am thrilled to have received another collage by Mars Tokyo in Baltimore. She has stellar work currently circulating that is turning up on the…

The amazing foam bird lands in Paris on a sunny day.  This is made up of a piece of foam wrapped in plastic and details added for arty design effect.

You see the thickness of the foam.  Amazing it arrived.

The details are stunning.  Amazing…

don't forget to send something red!

OK, at first I thought; Too many Japanise mushrooms for the girl with the mousy hair.  Then I thought to research this radiogram a little more in depth.

The streets are savage: A 1984 film about a girl wrongly accused of accidently killing…

I CONVOCATORIA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE CORREO DE LA GALERIA DE ARTE GETAFE Tema: “MODA MUJER”

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So here it is ladies & gentlemen, I give you Katerina Nikoltsou nude.  Or as we say in the MAil Art world, "without an envelope".

When this arrived I could hardly believe my eyes.  Katerina sent something without an envelope.  Love the "Time"…

"Living the Miniature Life" :-) Not too late to photo those Peeps!

Jack Latteman is compiling a super nice presentation.

More photos of the Peeps in Greece, Jack:

Here... atop the REAL Edmund Hippo who came from Hamburg:…

Minimally stated of course!

and two other fab minimal pieces included as well!

Eduardo is a master at…

An interesting black and white/grey card with a touch of red

with overlapping shapes hard to see in this scan...you need to feel it!

The flip side has writing from the past:…

Mail art by IUOMA member Richard Canard (Carbondale, Illinois, USA)

June 3, 2015 - Riding yet another post-avant wave with characteristic adeptness, Richard Canard has donned his shades and made another foray into the…

It has been blogged as a video

...but stunning to see the original art pages.

The participants to Bernd Reichert's  fine collection:…