Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog – July 2021 Archive (12)

Cascadia Artpost sent me several envelopes this spring and first half of summer containing his original postage stamps and newsletters.…

During the past spring I received several envelopes from Joel Cohen (a. k. a. The Sticker Dude), a printmaker and publisher of socially-oriented pieces. Typically The Sticker Dude combines images with song lyrics, with aphorisms, cartoons and various symbols, his printed works take the form of stickers, postcards, posters etc. Among the things I received you will find a book with lyrics by him.…

Mail has arrived from Vilnius. I thank the Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Žuromskas.…

Mail Art from Norway, the Netherlands and Italy.

Norwegian artist Gunn Nordheim Morstøl sent me a collage in an envelope, also decorated with collage.

From Jurrien Wouterse (a. k. a. Flying Adventures Weesp) a collage-book.…

Art postal de France. Mail Art from France.

The artist Jean-Charles Boilevin, who lives in the Endre-et-Loire department, sent a very unusual circular work made on a disposable plate - on one side an address, a postage stamp, on the…

I am very grateful to the artists who keep up the art communication with me.

There is an American living in Bath, Ohio, under the pseudonym ' The Introverted Post'. I like the pieces of this craftsman, but I do not know his real name, whether he is a man or a woman, or how old he is. Another message from 'The Introverted Post' is directly on the envelope…

Mail Art from Italy. The artist Giorgio Termignone, who lives in Milan, sent me a postcard-sized abstract work,…

I thank the artists Justynn Tyme, Susan Weisberg, Thomas Brown, Stephen Rife. Mail Art from the USA!

Justynn Tyme sent me several small watercolour abstractions and a pen drawing (photo 1 - 2).

Susan Weisberg sent a collage of subtle work on the theme of the poem 'A Hand' by Jane Hirshfield. The poem itself is printed on the back of the collage (photos 3 - 5).

Thomas Brown from Baltimore, Maryland, sent me a stamp in several colours; the piece came in the mail as a…

Je remercie les artistes français. Mail Art from France.

The handmade postcard in a beautiful envelope…