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Several mail art pieces have been incoming that are themed towards the Northern Hemisphere's Autumnal Equinox.  This year's fall season seems to be hurtling itself through the calendar days quicker than I have time to appreciate it.  So I am glad to receive mail from friends who have taken the time to contemplate and appreciate the season, and remind me that the Eleusinian Mysteries march onward through their ritual timeline regardless of whether I have time to observe them or not.  Here in…

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CALL FOR RECALL

New mail project on memory and memories, proposed by the German networker Eberhard Janke, behind JANUS editions.

Format: 2D maximum A5 (so postcard size) vertical.

Free medium.

Deadline is June 2012.

Mail your contributions to:

Edition Janus, Eberhard Janke, Schlos strasse 8, D-13507 Berlin, GERMANY.

From Susan McAllister,thank you.

Friends from South Africa have been thinking of me recently. A second mailing of South African provenance arrived of GOTIJ-standard caliber.  Strikingly, the format was similar to that of another South African compatriot's piece recently received--it was an accordion piece, and it also depicted an animal, though of the more aerie variety.  One really had to discover the avian fellow, however, as he splashed around in a bath of liquid alphabet characters.…

Galloping into my mailbox and rocking my world... or is that rocking into my mailbox and making my heart gallop?... was a stunning, double-sided, tri-fold accordion piece from Lesley Magwood Fraser.  One side depicting a block print of some creative invention--a black beauty on rocking arcs, and embellished by some intricately cut-out cartoons of a [less than] graceful, but comic, dismount.…

After moving to my new home I received a lot of star-art, thank you all for this wonderful welcome here!!

Guido Vermeulen send this wonderful envelope, I love the way the tiny (newspaper?) papers are worked into it...

Judith Heartsong sent this great card along with hundreds of small stars who lie now everywhere on the desk and…

I received the most wonderful mail from Diane yesterday. Kraft paper envelope rubber stamped, and filled with two of her famous trashpo works, and a piece of charred paper with a mysterious  RE-PRINT label on one side... 

What a great surprise when I received a bigger than usually package from Nadine...my walk back to the house was filled with anticipation...along with alot of feeling and squishing of that oversized package...

I can not tell you how my heart filled with warmth and love when I opened that special gift; all wrapped up in colored tissue and string...

Let me share with you what was inside....…

Soft colours and beautiful design Zalop art mail by Cathérine Petré

Cover: July 2011 issue of the DKULTNY (DKULT-New York) fanzine

November 25, 2011 - Posing as an adoring fan injured in the infamous D-Koder Ring Scandal, I infiltrated the D-KULT (a mail-art…

"eyes on you" by Laura P - #185 of 365 Mail Art Group...Thank you so much for this creative PC...

Received these two abstract pieces in the mail from Cheryl. The color and texture are evocative of Africa.

Two studenst (Hakim and Tim) from GAAV|Design designed these three concepts. What do you things of these. Give feedback on which you like most and what alterations you would like?

CONCEPT A

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I say this every time, but Svenja makes stunner envelopes . This one comes with vintage drawings of scenes of daily life in traditional Japan. Beautiful!…

Augusta overlooking the roofs of Tiny Town, a beautiful collage based on a painting by Maurice Utrillo,Street in Sannois. Thank you very much Mim!…