Cheryl penn's Blog – August 2012 Archive (3)

The New Alexandrian Library Book Collection - New additions from Susanna Lakner (Germany), TICTAC (Gemany) and Suus in Mokem (Netherlands)

One of these days some VERY important collector who wants to save all the books sent to me is going to knock on my door and say - we are burying beautiful and important works for generations to come to find. We WANT your collection. What will I say???? I would be HUGELY loathe to part with all these beautiful books. Let me give you some new examples, and you'll see what I mean. From Susanna Lakner - Playing it Safe in Public Places.…

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Added by cheryl penn on August 25, 2012 at 5:18pm — 13 Comments

Zines 1 and 2 - Mail Art Makes the World a Town - COLLATED

The proof of photography :-) - Zines 1 and 2 are collated, going to the printers for binding on Thursday, should be in the post by Monday. Zine 3 needs some pages, so send please!!! Zine 4 reminder title - Town Asemics in a Mail Art World. Many thanks Lesley Magwood Fraser for coming to help - LOTS of talking which resulted in one or two re-arranges - but we got there :-) XX…

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Added by cheryl penn on August 14, 2012 at 2:42pm — 9 Comments

Male Art - for The New Alexandrian Library Small Books Collection - Erich Sundermann (Austria) David Dellafiora (Australia), Samuel Montalvetti (Australia) and Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Corresponding with Erich means entering a world of make believe where lines are simple and borders are easily crossed. The Zine page call for Mail Art Makes the World a Town resulted in a full visual narrative titled The story of Sigi.

I'm not too sure how I'm going to deal with the Story of Sigi in the Zine - but as the starter page for Zine 3 - its GREAT!…

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Added by cheryl penn on August 4, 2012 at 3:00pm — 18 Comments

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