Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (450)

Mail has arrived from Vilnius. I thank the Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Žuromskas.…

Mail Art from Norway, the Netherlands and Italy.

Norwegian artist Gunn Nordheim Morstøl sent me a collage in an envelope, also decorated with collage.

From Jurrien Wouterse (a. k. a. Flying Adventures Weesp) a collage-book.…

Art postal de France. Mail Art from France.

The artist Jean-Charles Boilevin, who lives in the Endre-et-Loire department, sent a very unusual circular work made on a disposable plate - on one side an address, a postage stamp, on the…

I am very grateful to the artists who keep up the art communication with me.

There is an American living in Bath, Ohio, under the pseudonym ' The Introverted Post'. I like the pieces of this craftsman, but I do not know his real name, whether he is a man or a woman, or how old he is. Another message from 'The Introverted Post' is directly on the envelope…

Mail Art from Italy. The artist Giorgio Termignone, who lives in Milan, sent me a postcard-sized abstract work,…

I thank the artists Justynn Tyme, Susan Weisberg, Thomas Brown, Stephen Rife. Mail Art from the USA!

Justynn Tyme sent me several small watercolour abstractions and a pen drawing (photo 1 - 2).

Susan Weisberg sent a collage of subtle work on the theme of the poem 'A Hand' by Jane Hirshfield. The poem itself is printed on the back of the collage (photos 3 - 5).

Thomas Brown from Baltimore, Maryland, sent me a stamp in several colours; the piece came in the mail as a…

Je remercie les artistes français. Mail Art from France.

The handmade postcard in a beautiful envelope…

Dear friends, I'm ready to work in the FluXus Bucks genre. If you like, send me Bucks from «ex posto facto» or other Bucks blanks, I'll make a collage and bring it back.

I am grateful to Picasso Gaglione who presented my Stamp Art works at his Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA). My first exhibition in the USA.

Lovely mail art by Mail_Art_Martha. The envelope contains a print with a cat, as well as a small zine, in which the artist talks about some of the pieces she has received in the mail.

Thanks Martha!…

There is such a thing as "limited edition prints". They are present in mail art along with collage and drawing. I received a signed and numbered collage print in the mail from the French artist and writer Christophe Massé. In addition to literary work and painting, since 1979 Christophe Massé has also worked on the Livres d'Artistes genre.

The collage print that Christophe Massé sent has a small addition - the face of a man, painted in oil paints and mounted during the collage…

Dear friends, I received a lot of new Mail Art in spring and June, but it's been a long time since I posted pictures of what I received. I'll try to catch up during these fiery solstice days. Let's start with the mail-art I received from the Netherlands - Carien van Hest sent me a tiny book in a beautiful handmade envelope containing a poem by William Blake.

Thank you!…

I recently received Mim's beautiful Banana Day work in the mail. I also exchanged a few letters with the famous Anna Banana last autumn and winter. All this gave me the idea to make a collage with Banana's…

My collage came to Vlada Lapteva in the city of Yekaterinburg (Russia).