September 2011 Blog Posts (216)

BIFIDUS JONES has also been extremely GENEROUS to me.  Bifidus has got the art of collage DOWN!  What elements make Bifidus’s art so appealing?  The COLORS, definitely… The vintage-style images, curious images.  Interesting images paired against vintage typeface and handwriting.  This particular beauty has stamp images and characters, INCREDIBLE old U.S. postage…

David Stafford (I think) reminisces about the loss of childhood and the Sears store…

Diane Keys sends me one supa-dupa TRASHPO Art Fortune!  Well,…actually it’s just half of a fortune, but anyone who gets a Trashpo piece from Diane is…

This blog features newer IUOMA members and new friends who have recently sent me amazing samples of their artwork:

Abigail LaLonde sent me one of her zentangle envelopes that I had admired.  Seeing it live, face-to-face was no less impressive than seeing its picture on IUOMA. Thinking about the time involved in this repetitive style is a little intimidating to my mind. …

 The book form has featured prevalently it seems among our artwork.  I’ve tried writing to a few of you about the appeal of the book form… why it attracts us so much.  Most recently in the Trashpo Group, there have been several of us who have explored that medium.  I’m still a little hard pressed to explain fully the draw, but I am an admitted bibliophile… something about the familiarity of books, of how knowledge is contained in them… and even in that phrase—“contained knowledge”—there is…

5x8 card altered in a very simple way but with a great result. Thanks for sharing. It was the surprise of the day.

The gentleman sleeping on the left side of the photo is charming enough, but what about the bloke on the right? Did his head spontaneously combust from reading all of mankind's past? All our glories, all our sins? Perhaps he actually came across the definition of trashpo...…

I received the most amazing trashbook from Thom and I'm going to post all the pages whether this page wants me to or not. It will only let me post a few at a time. His stamp is genius and each page is just rich. I love how he put a ticketmaster envelope in and there is awesome trashpo inside of it. He has pieces of envelopes, plastic bags, and calendars and perfect choice of words interspersed throughout and the tiny bag of threads and 'loose ends' is amazing. He has cut out a…

Was thjrilled to receive this great trashpo piece from Bifidus  I would love to see Volume I and hope for more sequels. This is a 6" X 9" piece of faux wood-maybe made of laminate or something the texture of a mouse pad which I have considered using it as. Amazing that everything stuck to it during mailing and I don't know how Bifidus managed to write on this surface but this…

Wrapped in lush green tissue paper (a paper I cherish as it is not available here), Theresa sends a Trashpo beauty, full of Greek myths and dinosaurs, bond with wispy golden threads!

(Well, Elvis is a god, too!)…

Just this...says it all!

Well, and a bit of Mind Bending ZALOP on the envelope:

Eduardo also include a vintage page add + pass, which I have added to and passed on ;-)…

From Erni Bar, Diane Keys, and Angie&Snooky:…

A tribute to Estonian composer Arvo Part: We have been conversing about contemporary composers and share an appreciation of Arvo Part. Part's "Tabula Rasa" came up as Guido was working on this incredible painting, and it evolved into a tribute to Part. I was enjoying seeing it in fragments in Guido's photos, and then, to my great surprise, the whole large painting arrived in…

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Beautiful ATC's Svenja....Love them and Thanks!…