August 2015 Blog Posts (160)

I started doing mail art via snail mail in the mid 1990s and did end up having to discard some of it in various moves - some I did manage to keep and have uploaded some of it to my flickr page in an album called Mail Art - it can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tishbriz/albums/72157639366339133

Thank you Carina for the kind words and the wonderful artwork.  Kafka is collage!

A great postcard from Cascadia - and yes I will send you what you requested, Jack.  Thanks!

What a Fab piece of Mail Art.  The only way to describe it is like knitting with plastic bags.  I hope Emily tells us how she made this, and what's more…

Eye have created a monster. I'm up to my eye balls with barcodes!  Eye never meant it to go this far, but now it seems to be beyond my control. Katerina…

Roland has an on-going mail art call for bottles,

special bottles,"Bocksbeutel", but all kinds are welcome.…

Always good to see Chuck Welsh in the mail :-)

And so happy to receive this card...and cut-up side of beef!…

or NOT! In a black trim envelope:

Let's see what can be done to keep it alive?

Maybe I'll send this around…

Here is another Great Big Collage. This one shows some surprising similiar poses bertween Monet, Manet et al's and Heffner's model harems.

Most of the Ladies in Red kept most of their clothes on.

Which is more than can be said for the next few young ladies.…

Mail art by Henry Denander (Stockholm, Sweden)

August 31, 2015 - I am thrilled to have received a second missive from Henry Denander. The first mail art he sent me is documented on MinXus-LynXus II:…

With typewritten letter. New blog here ->

It's brown paper baggies,

...it's rich thick paint and printing...fish and letters…

These are Artist Trading Cards, small and lovely.

Each one a little jewel:

A bit too small of a format for…

Mail art by IUOMA member Brooke Cooks (Seattle, Washington, USA)

August 29, 2015 - I am very happy, after an inexcusable delay, to share this highly innovative mail art from Brooke Cooks in Seattle.…

a tile from Heleen....

will give it a good use /place!

thank you…

Another United Eternal Network money, money to Greece , yay!

Fleur included much mail art fun in a long envelope,

and a very special paw print zentangle: "Another visitor in the garden"…

Many " funny money" pieces coming to Greece!

Archive page with mail artists contributing...

I will be adding and sending in the mail soon.

An A4 Add 'n Pass sheet,too:…

Mail art by IUOMA member Annette Kesterson (San Francisco, California, USA)

August 29, 2015 - I do not know why I am so lucky to have a wonderful and generous correspondent like Annette Kesterson. I always deeply appreciate…

This little journal from Sue Skene is made from recycled chipboard from the cover of an old bookkeeper's ledger, grocery bags, and pages from a dictionary discarded from a library. It's quite beautiful. I think I'll experiment with grocery bags in the coming weeks.…