July 2019 Blog Posts (144)

Received this week from Penny Reineke a great asemic card, a lighthouse card and a really cool doodled envelope!

Have to look out something special to send back.

Not Add/Pass, but something to be treasured, 

lovely pages, French and "found" poetry...…

It is quite small, came with a FluXus buck, too:

very nicely done:…

Fantastic snail print arrived some time ago in Greece!

On wonderfully textured paper, 

and in a lovely BLUE envelope.…

Here is a lovely BLUE card that Diane sent!

Her project seems to slowly and surely be coming to completion.…

I must admit that I choked up a bit when I received my first completed Add and Pass. A heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone who contributed along the way.

The add and pass was made up of envelopes I had received from fellow mail artists. It was rather delicate but along the way, people added and made it sturdy.…

Cut paper flowers  from Mike Parsons.

And if you've exchanged art with Mike you know they are different than his usual oeuvre.…

Yesterday I received this wonderful set of artistamps by Diana Hale.

I must say they are great and the entire concept is so classy.

I just love them, thanks Diana!

The Lyons' Den has been corresponding with a certain Mr. Joey Patrickt since July 2018. At the time I was five months into mail art - a mere cub trying to understand all the ins and outs of the Eternal Network. ​

Envelope from Joey Patrickt, addressed to UPROAR (my mail art…

It saddens me that Volkswagen has decided to cease production of the Beetle. I have lived in San Francisco for nearly 30 years without owning a car.  But I have fond memories of zipping around in that orange, 1973, VW Super Beetle during college.  That car was so fast.  I actually have dreams where I still drive that car.  After a trip to Europe, I plastered the back of the car with stickers in various languages, mostly…

This small but lovely piece came from Norma Soulet last week, in honor of the 4th of July.  I spent the weekend having fun, which is what its all about, right?.  SO now I'd like to share this bold image.  .  

A lovely piece of art, with a magazine  article.  I don't read (or speak) Italian, but I believe the article is about the inventor of the hexagonal pencil: Ebenezer Wood.    The two pencils on the left  are little tiny pencils.  Its amazing how something as mundane as pencils can be new from a different perspective.…

Mail art by Cor Reijn (Zaandam, Netherlands)

July 10, 2019 - I was elated to receive this wonderful card from good mail art friend – Cor Reijn – in the Netherlands. With this elegant and highly conceptual piece, Cor Reijn expresses an issue that I am confident many are pondering at this moment. (Yet no one before has been able to express it so perfectly!) Thank you Cor Reijn.

I believe the question is…