Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (450)

Today is the 22nd of March. I can connect to the Internet from my room and read the IUOMA website. That in itself is a good thing! I received two pieces from Flying Adventures Weesp (Jurriën Wouterse). Jurriën lives in Weesp in The Nederlands. Thank you!!!…

I received a post from Heide Monster in Houston, Texas. Thanks!…

In January I received a post from Ray Haley. Thanks!!!…

I've decided to diversify my genre presence in mail art, and in addition to collage-meditations, I'm also making less time-consuming, faster-to-make collage postcards. They can be sent out without envelopes.

Meditation collages are made slowly, in a certain concentrated state, with part of the white background left blank. The collage postcards will be distinguished firstly by having the entire surface of the A6 sheet completely filled in, and secondly by having the surface…

Beautiful work from Silvia Dubois in the outgoing year.

I am grateful to Mail Art Martha, who sent me Mail Art last autumn. In the mail in an envelope came little books, highly informative editions of Martha's.…

An envelope arrived in the post in the autumn from Italy. If you are in the mail-art, you can't help but know Renata e Giovanni Strada. Thank you to the artists!…

Mail from the USA, which arrived autumn. I've written more than once about the mail art I received from Fleur Helsingor, take a look at another one of her pieces. The beautiful pattern the author saw at the bottom of the pool varies on the handmade postcard and on the envelope. Thank you, Fleur!…

Mail from the USA. I received a collage in the mail from M.L. Stephens, who lives in Salem, Oregon. A slightly cryptic, beautiful piece, probably a variation on the theme of a prose poem. The text of the poem is on the back. Thank you!…

In October, an envelope arrived in the post from the Portuguese artist Luís Filipe Gomes. The envelope contained various drawings, not just by Luís, a warm birthday greeting and a sample Asemic writing. I'm not publishing everything, but just one artifact, a miniature piece with a fish. Thank you!…

In the autumn I received Mail Art from Serbia, from Predrag Petrović. In the envelope I found a laminated collage and hand-drawn miniature drawings. Thank you!…

Mail from the United States, from Seattle, WA. I received a mail-art from Amy Kiessling last autumn. A collage in a beautiful envelope, decorated on both sides, and more American postal envelopes as a gift. Thank you, Amy!…

Last autumn I received Mail Art from Keith S. Chambers. Thank you for the lovely piece!…

In October, the Post delivered Mail Art from the USA. Here, in order, are: a collage postcard of an elderly lady by Motherbrando (a. k. a. Renee Brandow) from Iowa, a postcard with a fragment of a toy town by Cascadia Artpost (a. k. a. Jack Lattemann) from Washington State, a playing card with a cut-out fish silhouette by E.F. Higgins III of Michigan, a postcard by…

Mail-art from the USA. A postcard arrived in the mail from Stephen Rife, who lives in Minnesota's capital city. Note the inscriptions Stephen has provided for both characters!

In October, the post office delivered me envelopes from Sabela Baña from Spain, from Katerina Nikoltsu from Greece, from Serse Luigetti from Italy. Thanks friends!…

Mail from Russia to Russia. I received a unique autumn message from Vlada Lapteva from Ekaterinburg - the envelope contained a dried leaf of the Urals oak, decorated with embroidery and colours. On the reverse side is glued paper, so that the leaf works as a postcard: on the back there is a drawing and a letter. Thank you Vlada!…

Post from Poland. Received mail art from Raphael Nadolny, three reproductions with handwritten text, all together an homage to Alexander Rodchenko. The energy of the political poster bursts into the mail-art!…

Perhaps it was you who sent me this little book to finish artwork?

I can't remember who I should return it to (there are already new elements on the cover of the book). Please tell me if this is you. Ilya