Heleen de Vaan's Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (3)

High Art High Brows, Low Art Low Brows?

I received this wonderful collaged envelope from Erni.

'O, hier is weer zo'n knutselwerk', the lady from the postboxes said when she took the envelope from a hidden place (as it didn't fit in the postbox). Translated: 'Oh, here's an other fiddling work' (the funny thing is that in Dutch 'art' is 'kunst', and 'knutselen' is to fiddle / tinker (in a positive way).

And Erni wrote the relativizing words already on top of the envelope:

'If you can't get any high art,

why not…

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Added by Heleen de Vaan on April 26, 2014 at 10:19pm — 1 Comment

Platypus Mail Art

Since many years the Platypus is one of my most favourite animals. And every now and then a platypus reaches my mail box, all the way from Oz (and other countries).

Today I am happy to show you some of them.

Above the great amazing sweet Platypus, made thanks to Onions. Thank you Katerina!

Below the beautiful collage by Nicole Eippers:…

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Added by Heleen de Vaan on February 3, 2014 at 7:00pm — 45 Comments

Yay Yarn!

Yay Yarn!

Especially for the ones for whom yarn bombing takes too much time (by the sizes needed), Mail Art is the way to go!

You can knit and send lighthouses, …

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Added by Heleen de Vaan on November 8, 2013 at 10:52am — 30 Comments

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