August 2018 Blog Posts (148)

Ed&Pass that's where the fun is, Add 'n Pass Daze...Days :-)

These Add/Pass pages get around the Eternal Network quickly,

putting my head to it!

...already in-the-mail with other eggheads :-)…

A fun collaged vehicle from Yayoi. I like the addition of the address stamp too.



A wonderful stitched collaged card from Charlotte. I'm not sure which direction is up on this one, but i really like the…

I think this blog (link below) by long-time networker Rafael Gonzalez (Spain) is hysterical, especially given the amount of add & passes that are circulating via IUOMA-Ning.

Personally, I've always believed it's impossible to f---- up an add & pass. They're foolproof. Like so much mailart the idea of "anyone can do it" underlies the genre.

But Rafael - who has been doing mail art a long time - is worried that he is messing up the add & pass.

It should give us…

Mary strung along a series of tags with washi tapes!

What a fascinating little boekie it made!…

Trash the ads and newsprint with tape,

and here is Tape Art as only Jon Foster can create!

He send along some other goodies, too:…

Mail art by Jean-Philippe Gilliot (Saint Ghislain, Belgium)

August 27, 2018 - I am not familiar with Jean-Philippe Gilliott, and I do not believe he is an IUOMA member. But a quick search indicates he is well-known in the network and has done much work of note. I am thrilled to learn about and receive his work because I am a huge fan of the great Belgian collage artists, poets and correspondence artists, among them Little Shiva, Thierry…

After many years of wanting to make mail art, I have finally started. 

Slowly...

....... slowly....

This is great humor,

as only one from Ames,Iowa, could do it! 

And there were other goodies too:

The ol'…

Here comes a message from Vermont...("Burn"ie territory :-)

Wise owl and ORANGE! 

The mail art side has this guy a-bowin'…

From Berlin came an unusual image

Now it is said to be a "sign"

...so is it an "eye" or a Star Wars creature?

A very nice print indeed!

Also, in German, a pamphlet for Thessaloniki:

And nice stampings on the…

I received this ATC size mail art from Denise earlier this summer, and now getting around to post.

It reminds me the summer jazz festival that used to be here locally ages ago. I treasured this piece all summer.

Denise’s work is always so intricate and original. …

Disintegrated bark fragment (with my address) rescued by the US Postal Service. Who sent it?

August 25, 2018 - Postcards are endlessly wonderful, but it is also nice to receive physical objects via the mail. These “objects poems,” “found material,” “cryptic totems” – whatever you prefer to call them – are also a unique genre of mail art. I believe this propensity for sending objects is rooted in Fluxus but also not necessarily exclusive to…

How I love to see Ali Khat from the UK...meow!

This is a nice packet from Martha:

Lovely summertime…

Thinking "cool" in our Greek summer with this "snowman",

and the Sun is a CIRCLE, or two or three!

Jellyfish on the postage...…