Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (484)

2020. April Post from France.
Thanks Sylvestre Buoro for the beautiful envelope with the collage. Inside is an invitation to take part in a large mail campaign for sending mails.

2020. April Post from USA.

Thanks Ed Giecek from Concrete, WA (USA) for a wonderful gift. A decorated postal envelope, a hand-drawn miniature, and lots of things for my collages.…

Thanks Ed Giecek!

Thanks to Henry Denander. Let your music play! The drawing is made by hand, on the reverse side - an imprint and the author's postage stamp. …

In April, I received an envelope from Samantha Price... With what trepidation I accept this gift! For me, it was great happiness to meet Samantha in absentia. My condolences to her family and friends.

2020. April Post from Lithuania.

I am very grateful to Mindaugas Žuromskas for the…

2020. April Post.

Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Žuromskas performs his prints on the letterheads of official institutions. Now I have received from him a print made on cash receipts from stores. Mindaugas carefully glued the receipts together, taping them together on the back; the result was an A4…

2020. April Post from USA.

Thanks Lauryn Welch (Brooklyn, USA). I received a small collage book, along with stickers for my own work. The book leaves a pleasant feeling: there is "internal" and…

I suggest we work four hands. You know my postage stamp collages. I have an incomplete collages: about 50% of the postcard is blank. I can send you these postcard, you will complete the collage and post the photo on the Internet. You will be able to keep the resulting collage.

I am very grateful to Chuck Welch (a. k. a. Crackerjack Kid) for the art stamps.

For several days now, a beautiful envelope and four sheets of postage stamps have been lying in my room. I look at them as if they are jewels. This is…

March 2020 post from Italy.
Thanks Fabrizio Bandini from Scandicci (Italy), who sent the collage "Black chimeras".

March post from France.

Thank you to the mail-art artists who sent their works. Thanks to Martine Latrille (Capbreton, France) for the envelope decorated with stamping, and Jean-Charles Boilevin (Montbazon, France) for the artist's…

March 2020 post from Italy.

Last year, an exhibition of mail art dedicated to Fausto Paci, the collector and Patriarch of Mail Art on the Appennine Peninsula, was held in Italy. My collage was also present in the halls.…

March 2020 post from Germany.

Thank you to Sabrina Schmieder for the image of the Bible dove with an olive branch. Sabrina drew a dove by hand with colored pencils, and wrote a few words in Russian. Lutz Anders invites you to participate in a postcard mail art exhibition dedicated to the end of World War II. I have already sent my collage to…

Mail that came to me in April. I am grateful to the authors who sent their artwork. Thanks, Claire Humphrys-Hunt (Australia) Akiko Shinmura (Japan).

I am grateful for the ADD&PASS sheets; thanks,…