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Nancy's work was some of the first I noticed when I joined iuoma. As I said to her long ago, something about her particular creative voice has a rather untoward sonority for me... Color often speaks to me more eloquently than any other element of the visual, and her mastery...

it simply takes my breath away..... Her work speaks much more than colour to me of…

HERE IS A VIEW OF MY PART OF THE SHOW (16 PRINTS):

wonderful, intriguing envelope and art work.I love it and enjoyed the French text on reverse, good idea using a page from a book - page headed DE CAUMONT ABECEDAIRE D' ARCHEOLOGIE  (!)

A great surprise for me- thank you for thinking of me.

5.11.12

I have received something good but with out name or address I can make out.  The envelope says 'ART IS FOR EVERY ONE'.

  Inside :  all kinds of graphics and  stamps in array with words DKA POSI as part of the design. Enjoyable and intriguing. 

 On the back it says 'YOU ARE AN ARTIST'

WHOEVER you are many thanks !"

Laurence

A beautiful card from Carina made my heart skip a beat. It is a photo transfer - I am still mystified as to how this is done - and a wonderful juxtaposition of what looks like a Chinese factory worker making what - orange rugs? opposed to a bunch of white men in suits in what could be courtroom. They are looking at something or somebody outside the frame. I…

Two portrait stampings in an envelope from "E".

Are they both our dear friend in Utopia??? One without....one with ...a beard:

Wonderful effect of "E" on the classical column capital motif...it's an…

Abstract in many ways.  A small painting which was a big hit here in Paris, and the abstract coding of an artist.  So if Suus is short for Susanne, and Mokum is a nickname for Amsterdam then ... I forgot where I was going with this.

Just enjoy what you see.

Thank you…

Somewhere I read a comment by Diane Keys that she does not like still lives with flowers and fruits and finds them boring. So when I received Diane's minimalistic postcard I thought of a special surprise. I went out and bought the ingredience to arrange a little still life especially for her. It is loaded with mail art related symbolism, such as BANANAS and TANGERINES.…

The last in a series of Mail Art received from Ana before she left Paris.  Very deep meaning of a complete artist.

Thank you Ana, good luck and keep creating.

Two forks arrived in a plastic case from Greece without an envelope.  It has the mystic words; "Kate Valetine".  What could this mean?  Who could this be from?  Should I open it?  What should I send back?  The pressures of Mail Art, normal people will never understand.

Thank you Katerina for sending this mail art, and maybe thank you Val for putting your fork…

At the stand from Cascadia Artpost in Seattle I discovered some IUOMA cards made it to the USA as well....

Earlier this summer, Marie had mailed me a Japanese fortune from a shrine with half its words cut out. She also sent me several bizarre pages from a novel and my job was to create a brand new fortune for The Festival by blending words from the novel with the missing text from the fortune. What goes around, comes around as they say for my fortune has come back to me in…

I can see that Mail Art can become quite addictive. You do not need to receive big parcels, even a small envelope like Suus can raise the serotonin, dopamine or whatever hormone level and soon you are hooked. You send out more mail so that you can have more mail art highs. Is there a disclaimer somewhere that warns people of the dangers of mail art addiction?…

Nadine has sent me some…

This one is from Ana's series; "assim e se lhe parece" (and if you think so) N° 12.  She did this one in 2009, and it sat around her appartment until the time it was time for her to go back home.  Lucky for me some things just needed to remain in PAris.…

I'm not sure by law if I'm allowed to put two series together, but here they are on the same blog.  This is Planet N Galaxy (2010) or what I see is a full circle which reminds me of a round trip.

From Ana's AR series (2012); Blue AR (Aller Retour = Round trip)  OH yes it is blue in Paris as Ana has left to return home.  It even rained the day she left.…