September 2015 Blog Posts (168)

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SPAZIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART GALLERY 2.0

Mail art by IUOMA member Erica Durante (Waldwick, New Jersey, USA)

September 13, 2015 - Erica Durante is proving to be a faithful and consistent correspondent. Given that she is the president of the battered New Jersey chapter…

What could these be on the envelope from Darko Vulic?

Stampings from mushrooms? Looking like ???? What do you see?…

A very large A4 packet arrived last week from "Saint Clown", no name however... :-)

That the ZIP code and postage tag is for Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA, helps to know who sent it!

Soooo, is it from RCBz...oh, yes,and his…

A page of blue-circle prints on black paper:

became a fantastic Vispo boekie (a TLP) with John M. Bennett's creative additions!…

Mystery mail – can you help?

September 12, 2015 - An unidentified mail artist sent me this card depicting Eeyore. Not long ago I shared a story on Facebook about how when I was a child my mother made me burn my prized, stuffed…

Above is the envelope and the backside of a letter I got from Juana today. It took considerable effort to get this package to me due to postal machines misreading the back of the envelope as the front, and thus returning the mail to her! (See her…

I got this beautiful pen drawing from Trey Moore last Friday on a handmade 4x6 postcard. It's inspired me to experiment with some pen work for some future projects. Thanks, Trey!

Last week was a tough week for me so when I opened my mail box yesterday and pulled out some mail art it immediately put…

So fine, so minimal,Laurence sent this special postcard,

and she attached this "crystal" bead, too.

Delicate "watermark" impressed:Happy September :-)…

This card arrived in Greece and it has this attached mini tile:

lovely work by Rebekka Koefoed in Denmark

who has a "tile" mail art project:…

...with a touch of summer BLUE!

Ti Ar Raden in France is always creating fantastic cards with black 'n white!

Thank you Ti Ar! Gwellan gourchemennoύ...in Briton?

Nice!…

It is all about the beauty of the eternal CIRCLE:

...almost like Outer Space...spheres floating!

It is a lovely original watercolor card.…

Fun color circles in my mail box from Wisconsin!

Very rich, nice paint here, I'm lovin' it, Angie!

And look who has one of those "wheels", great fun:…

Hello, everyone!! Soon I'll be sending out mail art to everyone who has sent me art, and various other individuals. I'm currently working on art projects at my college that I intend to cut down into little pieces and send off with little messages. I hope to be more active on here in about a month or so. Much love to everyone!!

This Great Big Collage is slightly smaller than the others in this series being only 150 x 90 cms, or 60 x 36 ins: usual rules for postage and envelopes apply.  I agree with Monsieur Balzac -- The bar of a café IS the Parliament of the people.…

You know it is an exceptional piece of mail art when it comes tattered and torn. That's when you know it has been passed around the mail rooms for thousands of miles to reach the USA. Of course why wouldn't it of been; with internationally known artists the Artist in Seine and Suus in Mokum.…

Wow! I was happy enough to get mail art with Picasso on it! He is one of my favorite artists but when I could feel there was a gift inside I was excited and tried to find the easiest way to get at it without ruining the packaging. What a great Picasso Pin and the comic strip is too funny! How did you know I liked comics Tracy? ;) Thank you very much for the surprise…

Rebekka, I love this mail art tile that you have made and the glass in the middle is such a nice Danish design. Thank you so much. It is so great to receive mail after you get back from a very long journey. Makes all the bills that are also in the pile of mail not seem so bad…