September 2017 Blog Posts (81)

Hey kids! I have a lot of old envelopes so I made them into ADD and PASS books. Let me know if you'd like one and I'll send one to you. Add your mark and then send to whoever you'd like. When full, kindly send them home.

A wonderful collage card that arrived today from Yayoi. Love the use of stamps to add layers.



A very cool fold out ATC from Denise Woodward. Love how she keeps pushing what can be done with the ATC format.



And finally, Picasso Gaglione's zine…

Official Michael Orr “Legends of Trashpo” collector card by DKULTNY

September 16, 2017 - Michael Orr, as most networkers know, is a tremendously…

Mail art by IUOMA member Norma Soulet (Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA)

September 15, 2017 - I am thrilled to have received a first piece of mail art by Norma Soulet in Florida. (I hope she is surviving the bad weather!). Norma…

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Hey kids. I wrote a little bit about my 4 x 4 Add and Passes on my blog. Please take a…

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The Family DKult sent a huge package of things (most of which I've returned) (as required by law). As you can see from the Inset Carina G's laughing horse was included in the mix, not once but dos, and, as I discovered somewhat tardily, also in the package was an Anthead Super Collabo-zine add-and-pass which has since been added and passed. Let's take a closer look the…

Fun collage card characters,

so colorful, they light you up :-)

wonderful details on the front:…

Cascadia ArtPost (Jack Lattemann) sent  a super documentation,

of the mail artists at Sticker Dude's Mail Art Congress in Seattle!

There they are:

The Sticker Dude (Joel Cohen),

Eagle Island Post(Kathleen…

Ahmet creates many amazing artistamps,

and his new series is with portraits of mail artists:…

If you’re interested in participating in this add and return event, please let me know. All you have to do is send me your address and I’ll send you a card. You add to that card and then send it back to me. I will then position your card, along with eight others, in a square frame. Those square frames (five currently are completed) will be positioned together to make a…

A wonderfully layered piece from Jan in Anacortes.



A wonderful collage from Charlotte with stitched…

Meow, time for Kat and kits...

and a bird or two :-)

This will be a fun add/pass to send on soon:…

Brad in South Dakota sends a serious cat :-)

and nice stamps, too!

FluXus flying:…

This has to be the "minimum" size for mailing? It arrived safely!

Lovely BLUE envelope with goodies inside:…

The allure of artistamps is irresistible. So many mini-canvasses, so many great graphic forms to riff on, plus perfs! Here are four different artist approaches beginning with Borderline Grafix's homage to the classic "good girl" graphics from the Golden Age of comics.…

9/11...

and where we were,

what we were doing,

whom we were with...

and in our thoughts today too:

all those suffering from hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

By IUOMA member Eduardo Cardoso (Sines, Portugal)

September 10, 2017 - Eduardo Cardoso is a mail art friend whose work tends toward minimalism and explores signification and the generation of asemic symbols. I am thrilled to be able to…

I'm so happy! I finally did it - I purchased our tickets for a visit to Paris. We haven't been back since 2012, so my Français is rusty, but I've pulled out my books to review. We'll be there from the 18 October to the 31 October. If anyone is going to be there or nearby, maybe we can do a Mail-Art meet up. Dean? We'll stay in the city, other than a day trip or two. Am I…

Mail art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

September 8, 2017 - By now, most participants in the Eternal Network are familiar with the art associated with Trashpo and DKult. Trashbooks are particularly well known and…