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Hello everyone - Wow! it's been almost three years since my last blog post here,and two years since I've hosted a mail art show here in Columbus. I've missed my regular mail art exchanges and want to renew the practice. I'm planning on mailing some things out this late summer/early fall, hopefully September.

I'd be glad to get mail from you again (of course, mail for the first time is cool, too).

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Since my temporary semi-retirement from mail art, I've been sharing art…

I'm publishing electronic copies of my mail art pamphlets on the issuu site here:

https://issuu.com/faintpress

So far, I have posted electronic copies of they never put They only equal and ntasmas (in collaboration with C. Mehrl Bennett, John M. Bennett, and Diane Keys). More mail art pamphlets are in the works for the winter of 2018.

The above collage and the two below were received from Toni throughout 2017. Thanks, Toni!…

I am experimenting with blogging on IUOMA-Ning again to highlight the photos I upload to the site. It isn't necessarily the easiest endeavor but seems, perhaps, worth the trouble.

For this experimental post I am going to share John M. Bennett's TLP FIÈVRE in detail. Above is the cover. Below is the rest of this work of visual poetry. Enjoy!…

New posts from IUOMA members at Summergimurne?, my main art blog. I still have a bunch of stuff to scan, so there will hopefully be more posts very soon.

Keith S Chambers [1]

Keith S Chambers [2]…

You may view digital reproductions of these works in my photos at IUOMA or at my art blog, Summergimurne?:

Timothy Waldron

Toni Hanner

Matthew Stolte

John M…

I started a blog devoted to reviewing and blogging/reblogging art of all kinds. It is:

http://summergimurne.tumblr.com

Here's what's there lately:

Beautiful Moby-Dick postcards from Matt Kish

http://summergimurne.tumblr.com/post/146771457842/

A…

I got this card from Dean. It's got kind of a Blade Runner feel to it. Perhaps soon they will make a barcode that is more human than human. Who knows? Here is the reverse, where he thanks me for the visual poem "a past" that I sent him:…

Richard Canard revised the quote I received from Juana and sent me his version. This one certainly rings true for me. My fantasy team loses every year, so much so that I am considering calling it "reality football" (when it comes to the NFL, I am a Lions fan, so this may make sense).

Here is the reverse of the card, where he encourages me to share this with Juana and…

This wonderful calligraphic / enso piece features an aphorism by Juana's husband. It's quite a wonderful saying. Although you cannot smell it, this piece smells wonderful, too, as if it has been in a room where some great-smelling incense has been burning. 

Thanks,…

Some of you may have also received this beautiful brochure promoting Moan's art. Moan also sent me this:

What a gifted digital artist Moan is--just had to say so. I wish Moan much success now and in the future.

Thanks,…

Above is a detail from the back side of a postcard I received from Thomas Brown.

Here is the front:

Thanks,…

Top row, from left:

Finley Union - very small-scale mixed media works

Katerina Nikoltsou - an erasure poem that reads:"art cut edge / couple / special / conservation, / make / in step / development / operate", with a Dada rubber stamp

David Alan Goldberg - drawing on postcard

Middle row, from left:

Toni Hanner - beautiful collages

Torma…

A piece of mail art sent in celebration of Leap Day. Thanks, Katerina!

This was in celebration of Leap Day. Thanks, Dean!

Beautiful envelope and print from Ayşe Uğur. Thanks, Ayşe!