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Poems from the Past - from Nancy Bell Scott

 

Recently there have been several great blogs about mail art related to Memories and Memory. The piece that Nancy is sending me breathes the same air of Reminiscence. It comes with a wonderful letter, relating sweet childhood memories, freewheeling days at her grandparents' farmhouse. A child's universe, a lost world, but how come ever so present in the adults…

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Added by Marie Wintzer on October 11, 2011 at 10:16am — 11 Comments

WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION 2012

Works on Paper Exhibition

1st Mail Art Festival in Malaysia (2006)…

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Added by suzlee on October 11, 2011 at 4:30am — No Comments

Roland Halbritter: a dark surprise

Well, it's dark, but with a colorful (and Spanish) interruption: Still, the black by itself speaks. As if this weren't mysterious enough to receive--including the fact that I've had no previous contact with the obviously whimsical Mr Halbritter--the other side took much longer to understand:…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 2:11am — 7 Comments

Another card from Jon Foster (yay)

Very interesting mix of images: Jon made this card apparently using one of his taping methods that have helped turn me into a big fan of his work. The ground is a postcard of an Ansel Adams photograph at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, but we see that photo only at the upper left and the bottom left and right corners. Jon contributed most of what is seen, and the… Continue

Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 1:38am — 1 Comment

WHERE THE SECRET IS HIDDEN, JOHN HELD, JR., COLLECTED ESSAYS, 1979-2011 CD/PDF NOW AVAILABLE

 

 

 

 

 

 

BANANAFISH PUBLICATIONS IS RELEASING THE CD/PDF EDITION FOR COMPUTERS, TABLETS, AND SMART PHONES. THE PLAN…

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Added by Mike Dickau on October 11, 2011 at 1:19am — No Comments

"Advice Dismissed" from Kerri Pullo Ryan

Beautiful piece by Kerri: "Advice Dismissed" caught my eye when Kerri put it up with her photos, and I was delighted to find it as the first mail art she has sent me. Kerri, when she uses words, makes them melt into the rest of the art, just as the photo does. The organic, wounded red shape around the photo expresses well the ambiguity of her subject. Very nice work, Kerri, and I… Continue

Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 11, 2011 at 1:00am — 1 Comment

From JJALLTHEWAY - USA. Beautiful "365" postcard!

Added by Michalis Kotsaris on October 10, 2011 at 10:21pm — No Comments

From Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas - Brazil. Awesome print, "fusca" car!

Added by Michalis Kotsaris on October 10, 2011 at 10:13pm — No Comments

Domestic Trashpo

But wait… There’s more.  Domestic mail artists have been prolific with their artwork, too, proving that Americans produce garbage just as colorful as their overseas brethren.

From Marcia Cirillo, in Texas, a treasure map to where some fantastic Trash might be located for our next trash treasure hunt…

 



From Michael Orr in Cornpone land (that’s…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on October 10, 2011 at 9:46pm — 8 Comments

International Trashpo

Mmm, Mmmmm, Mmm! We’ve been having fun with Lady Ga-Garbajo’s Group of Trashpo enthusiasts. And I have recently received some spectacular examples from abroad (..a WHAT??!!) I mean some friends from international locales:

 

From the Haptic Werewolf, Erni Bär, some vegetarian bratwurst et frites. I love how the card says “UHU,” which I’m sure is text phone lingo…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on October 10, 2011 at 9:26pm — No Comments

GOTIJ Document booklet for "Living Fast - Living Slow"

Beautiful done by Mr. Colori in Holland, and many color photos of the participating artists.

Here is John M. Bennett, Lancillotto Bellini, and others:

Another page: Rod summers and Judy Skolnick...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

GOTIJ Dean Marks destroyed mail art :-(

Look carefully. Around the Taj Mahal there is a circular glue mark. sob, sob, sob.

It's gone, it's gone...the Eiffel tower that pounced around in a bubble is gone! sob, sob, sob.

Dean and I worked together on some mail art in a little Paris Cafe. and he made this card for me.

But the postal machine monster ate the Eiffel Tower!!!

Well, happily,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — No Comments

GOTIJ Haptic Werewolf, large size collage AND sandpapers for sandpo!

It is called "SCREAM", but too many greens and pastoral scenes to make me scream. Great collage from Herr Haptic Eri, and a surprise treasured besides the collage:

SANDPAPER!!! Yay! and RED...look, Cheryl, look. Really RED sandpaper!

(and a few…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 10, 2011 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

From Emerenciano - Portugal, very interesting art-postcard!

Added by Michalis Kotsaris on October 10, 2011 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Gotij - a new Fluxus word from Ruud Janssen (IUOMA BOSS) PLUS the world wide ZALOP expansion

As most IUOMA members know, Ruud Janssen has had an ongoing Score of Fluxus Words since September 1988 – that’s 23 years  ago!!! In celebration of September 1988 – a new word arrived for me to promote as a new word, determine its meaning and then to disseminate  WORLD WIDE! I need your help here – JOIN THE NEW GROUP!!! Its GOTIJ – MAN – and we’ve ALL GOTIJ – thanks to Ruud. 

GOTIJ…

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Added by cheryl penn on October 10, 2011 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Karen Champlin's latest

Two more gorgeous vintage  ATCs from Karen with her unmistakable style, carefully crafted. And another special cardboard work, with I think a piece of Karen's asemic nightie sewn over a bedtime story.... Thanks Karen, I love all 3.

A close up of the nightie....…

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Added by Lesley Magwood Fraser on October 10, 2011 at 3:54pm — 1 Comment

DOCUMENTATION: Cheryl Penn's Chapter #5 Contribution to the Asemics 16 Collaborative Book Project (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa)

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

 

October 10, 2011 - The envelope containing Cheryl Penn's contribution to the fifth edition of the Asemics 16 collaborative mail-art book project…

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Added by De Villo Sloan on October 10, 2011 at 12:00pm — 27 Comments

Positively Postal's A-Z of The U.K. mailart project - help!

Hi there,

I have started my new A-Z of The U.K. mailart project/competition on the Positively Postal website as follows:

http://www.positivelypostal.co.uk/

There are two places I am still looking for mailart contributions for and they are Blackpool Tower and Edinburgh Castle. Could anybody here maybe produce some mailart tied around either of these two, write a short piece about them along…

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Added by Scott Thomson on October 9, 2011 at 9:46pm — 2 Comments

alicerces do medo

O sistema e a terra, este planeta em que o ser homem, se exige a si próprio um "auto - Poder" em que se absurdam "Os princípios da coexistência. Afinal a inteligência e os instintos sobrepõem-se de forma plasmada, de tal modo que nos ...leva a pensar que o instinto e / ou uma inteligência se interconjugam E que a lógica do instinto é uma verdadeira estrutura mental de defesa da nossa existência. Por absurdo cria-se uma da lógica da continuidade e existência no mais primário dos seres e as…

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Added by Maria João Franco on October 9, 2011 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

ATCs From Svenja Wahl

Great ATCs from Svenja!  Thank you!

Added by Karen Champlin on October 9, 2011 at 7:05pm — No Comments

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