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I did receive this a while ago and thought I would have time to finish it while I was in America.  But it didn't work out that way.  This is going to be a hard one for sure.

Thank you Jon, I'll see what I can do.

Today at ARTS-In Istanbul we had a different day. Generally we have a very cheerful atmosphere in the gallery and we are always in a very very positive mood. Bu today was somehow different. You could feel it!!!  We were happy-cheerful  and sad at the same time... We were happy because our gallery had been enlightened with precious artworks from all over the world for more than two weeks. Seeing all those beautiful, clever, shocking, unique, classical, modern, abstract, conceptual artworks…

Today is a special day for me! Because I received my first ''personal'' mail art piece... Keith S. Chambers sent me a very impressive artwork and a package of goodies... Things like stamps, cigar labels and some headlines from newspapers...I am definitely going to use them for my artworks...Thank you Keith!!! YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL FOR ME! …

A wonderful pkg with a handwritten note from the 'Archive Cabal'.

DKultEthiopia had posted to JHJ earlier last month.

Thank you…

I love the stamp w/splattered paint on the envelope.

This dark piece is a postcard with a nice handwritten note.  A published PC from…

A very intriguing piece of MA

The reverse is a handwritten welcome to the Trashpo Thingy.  Thank you, Susan!

And there it is folks, the Sandalia button.  It's in the bag.  Or should I say, on the bag.  In any case, it fits the picture.

A Pan Am airplane?  I remember them.

Thank you Ana, great button…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Jon Foster (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA)

May 28, 2013 - I am pleased to share this fantastic collage by Jon Foster. Many friends are, no doubt, familiar with the fantastic textures…

So many bits of wisdom and philosophy here from the library of Dean Michael Marks, it's hard to know where to begin, though I do appreciate the life this former book gave up in order to become mail art. Dean does an excellent job of pointing out with his…

Look what happens when you park a 2CV in Maastricht for a couple of hours and forget to put money in the parking meter:…

Now this is a fun packet from Jonesie! xx

It did fit nicely in my mail box, and I wondered what could be inside?

Lovely outside:

But contents must surely be for a "performance?…

Or have I got that the wrong way round?

Try again: Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum and SuusinMokkum & Val in O'Reilly's Bar.

That's better.

The Polo Mint has recently been to Amsterdam. It was practically impossible to Polo Mint the newly-re-opened Rijksmuseum, but I did manage to take a few photos there.

And then went to meet up with Suus.

Ready...steady...go!…

Mail art came from Rebecca...not from the UK...but from the USA :-)

and a most longed for: "mail art quilting":…

New blog on www.snailmailsuus.blogspot.com

This is The End of the Danish  series of Polo Mint Adventures, with photos from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen.

The Museum is so called because there is a large bar on every floor that offers visitors unlimited amounts of free Carlsberg beer, and when you have drunken a lot your tummy begins to rumble to the tune of 'Glytotek' -- the Danish Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1997.

Or something like that.

This Part of the Adventures begins with some Polo…

#560 from Dean. This is a guilt posting, not that i don't like it, i do, very much, and it would have been posted a couple of weeks ago, but didn't expect you to be back home so soon and thought for sure you would be traveling to iowa, who woudn't want to visit iowa, and upon your arrival we would talk about this and i would secretly be keeping notes because...as Bukowski…

I had some questions regarding this imagery (from an artist friend), so I thought I'd share some of my explanation here for clarification.  

The image was taken from a book on the history of the American Civil War, which ran from 1861-1865.  The two young men in the picture are (l - r) Andrew M. Chandler and "his faithful servant

", Silas (quotes…