Zack's Blog (931)

a both-sides-now shot of a 3D collage [that's an actual bottle cap (smashed) on the left] posted from France at the end of last year. i wonder what hand made object was inside of this 'Apli Krapli' box. also, it's funny that the French postal service cancelled the portrait of Polish singer Wiktor Dyduła (digging that mustache). merci…

great hand drawn card with mythic overtones and the word of the moment... merci Thom!

apparently Vilnius was the European Christmas Capital 2025 - who knew? 

look carefully and you'll find this tower [la Tour de Gediminas] on these cool postage stamps i recently obtained at the Postal Museum in Paris -…

this beautiful watercolor+ arrived in a lovely envelope decorated with a curated series of postage…

editions 23 et 24 de 'La Vie secrète des Mots'

felicitations sur le fin de ce projet - aux prochaines aventures!

so great to see you in my mailbox again!

hope you are well. la kermesse me manquait...

merci mon ami

a  nutty bumper crop of the finest vintage collages and wizened scraps, complete with a 'hidden' message about Mail Art: Try it. It Works.

thanks a lot Jim - btw, i recently saw your name at the Postal Museum in Paris (see my comment…

thanks for these holiday stars from a while back. this new year has not (yet) left a lot of time for Mail Art, but hopefully you've received something from me by now... belated New Year's wishes all the same ]:-)

even before one opens the envelope, the magic is apparent -

lots of mail art omens - 

and a copy of Leaf Study #9…

spot the doughboy! 

wow these cards are wild; non is clearly dealing with a full deck

medusa lisa cracks me up. but wait, there's more!…

this packet made me feel as if i'd entered a little gallery alcove, perfectly lit to appreciate the brushwork...

awyn knows i spend time with actual books, so she sent a bookmark along -

of…

Jack produced a pretty steady stream of postcards last fall - here's a whole lotta nothing... + seasonal groundscape. the flip sides:

might this ^ refer to nonlocal variable's project? curious to see the…

fantastic prints and gory (halloween) drawing

somehow, Hester intuited that many of my dungarees are beginning to fray, so she sent along some great printed patching material -

and, keeping with…

...means wet mailbox and...

...literal snail mail!

'Escaping Landscape' - wow!

and of course the envelope is just as compelling -

- looks like Little Red Riding Hood has transformed her basket of baked goods into a boat to avoid…

an invitation to participate in Jack's 'Tickets & Ephemera' project (now in its 9th year); of course i've RSVPd yes. i look forward to seeing the latest documentation of daily life of mail artists in the 21st…

maybe these are printed from actual leaves?

but wait there's more: 'absent leaves'

a hand-stamped envelope full of teabag-strings, some with rare words of wisdom. i am strictly a coffee drinker…

some uncharacteristically small pieces from Vilnius -

pretty sure that's a fragment of a driver's license or other ID card, which gives you an idea of the size of these works. 

apparently Zygimantas is still cranking out those superhero/transformer/alien portraits -…

fantastic imagery for Halloween (yes, i'm still catching up). thanks Pam!

the return of the mysterious AO (not to be confused with AI)