September 2011 Blog Posts (216)

It became clear that Marie is a genius at putting together lovely works of mail art with found objects. From the pages of mathematics, the film strip, the thread, and paper clip, to the staples and asemic writing in foggy white, this piece is flying high.…

Wow Guido, these are amazing! A whole booklet of your tribal ink drawings and asemic symbols, I absolutely love them. The starkness of the black on cream board adds to the intensity of the work. I am very very happy to have these! Thankyou.…

Nadine is also printing stuff, lots of leaves in autumn colours. Great prints thankyou Nadine, and i like the happy smiling face on the back - even though you like smiling more than making art, I try to do both together!

Well Cheryl paid no attention to our pleadings and promptly dismembered her Transgressing the Pages book, I received a piece of it today and MAN it's great! Luckily there is a photo of the original book so we can see where it all came from, and an explanatory note, with my comment from the IUOMA site asking how she could bear to break this up! I wonder what it's next form will take, maybe we will have to send it all back to her for rejuvenating some time so that it can reappear as something…

I have never seen such tiny books, especially handmade ones, from Samuel, they are beautifully made. A Fluxus book and an asemic book, cant put them on my bookshelf or they will get lost! And a great card with a jolly waiter offering me a beer - yes please! Thanks Samuel!…

The picture doesn't do this justice - it is black, not grey. Another of Karin's ethereal people in front of a window - she calls it "The journey of my soul through the windows of my life".... Sparkly spirals bring it to life. Great thanks Karin!

Katerina is also into woodblock printing, these swirly spirals are the perfect choice for circles that you find in the windmills of your mind... thankyou Katerina, this is going to be a FAB book!…

Front cover and several pages:…

Lucky me to receive this great piece from Frieder, with a divine ink drawing on the envelope. As I am working on a body of similar work (face monoprints) these really appealed to me..... thankyou Frieder!

Received this great package from Erni. I will have to post the original packaging in a separate blog as Ning is being picky and won't let me post additional photos. The shampoo bottle has great smelling air from hamburg in it. I am honored to have some German Garbage from the Erni Bar Fan Club.  The CD of Fun Manchu may very well be complete trash as Erni says, but when I tried to play it I received an error message which I found to be quite poetic.  I got TWO large collages from…

Here come the Minoan gals, right from the Island of Crete ...what happens when a few old Greek postcards are found in south Africa? Well, Lesley turns them into very wonderful and artisic collage-altered-postcards!

The greek island and South Africa behind…

This is a detail of a masterfully wonderful piece that came in the mail today from Marie. Asemics?.Altered book pages? Haptic? All and more! Full-page view below reveals the delicacy and the poetry that Marie created.

White asemic writings, formal shapes, collaged texts...all add to this artistic symphony.…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)

September 6, 2011 - Among other types of work, Cheryl Penn has produced visual-textual narratives that are both complex and highly self-referential.…

Getting super-pumped about the possibilities that Sarah (and Nick) are coming up with. This piece is done with stencil and paint and very impressive. So glad that such good people are getting their wonderful things out in the world. Can't wait for the next…

Reed Altemus, Mary Campbell and Melissa McCarthy will be in Kaunas the week of Oct 16 participating in the biennial satellite exhibit- GEORGE MACIUNAS AND BEYOND - FLUXUS NEVER STOPS (curated by Keith A.

Buchholz) to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Happenings of George Maciunas in New York. During that week they will be doing performance scores on a trolley. A special score book will be created for this week with contemporary scores to be performed on the trolley. If you would…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Red Head Love (RHL) (Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA)

September 5, 2011 - The enigmatic mail-artist Red Head Love lives in a community in New England where there is a rock. Hundreds of years ago, it is…

... but after "raising my hand," I found this in my mailbox,

and I love it! This has to be from the Lexington series others are raving about, and its depth and moody word + number play make it a fine work of art that I feel lucky to have received. Somewhere on the site Jon mentioned that he is back and asked if there is anyone new who has never gotten mail-art from him.…

How did she know I need this? "Get yourself outside" and wonderful old doors that remind me of the happiest days of childhood, spent at my grandparents' house in upstate New York. Literally, a breath of fresh air for the mind. I don't get out enough now and think that Judith must be psychic.…