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Mail-art by IUOMA member Eduardo Cardoso (Sines, Portugal)

September 9, 2011 - Bloggers at IUOMA have recently posted some amazing compilation blogs: Collections of work by multiple mail-artists that invite viewers to find…

All these pieces deserve a blog of their own, but unfortunately time is exerting pressure on these early autumn days. So here are three fantastic pieces for you today.

My first envelope from the very talented Cathérine. Perfectly matching the card. I admire her work greatly, she has a unique style, very pure, very delicate, yet their is a…

I was delighted to receive this from Sarah today:

Very cool! It's downright striking in real life, and the first look as it came out of the envelope screamed "Asemic radio!" But here, at the laptop on desk, the second-guessing began. IUOMA is on my…

My first art I received from Nancy Bell Scott, I saw the wonderful pictures of her art, but now I have the real thing! And it's a bag of surprises, her wonderful card, with a special poem inside:

And an extra card, and some stamps: …

A wonderful small black package, I don't know if I should open it? I think it should stay a secret. The envelope is absolutely fabulous, too. Thank you very much, Frieder, I love it. 

Great mail art from Sarah (BarnArt), a huge cup of tea (I'm a tea addict, too, Sarah) with a real string attached to it (yes, it made it through the postal system!). On the (missing english word, the thingy that hangs on the end of the other thingy that hangs in the cup... ??) there is a quote from Eugene Delacroix:

"Artists who seek perfection in everyting are those…

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…