Nancy Bell Scott's Blog Posts Tagged 'collage' (16)

A recent and all-time favorite in the crushed can department, posing as the Big Dipper and then a flower:    And handsome rusty lids!: And a light…

She began at IUOMA by writing a most thoughtful blog post that had me thinking for a while. It struck me as perceptive, questioning, honest. Meeah's mail arts are multi-faceted; in a way they could be like taking a course in one envelope, in the best sense of…

Ana used cutouts and paint for this collaged piece of cardboard, and look at that unique shape! I really love it--many thanks again, Ana.

This is a taped collage, and below is the great envelope it traveled in. Thank you kindly, Roberto!…

It's trashpo, and it's rustpo, and it hangs: 

Opening this was like ZING--is it my birthday?--it would be hard to choose one, but this has to…

Two of the three pieces in Janine's anarchic-looking envelope feature leopards, among other things, including a talkative and/or brave bird. These are delightful: 

She also included another collage, more abstract and yet still we can recognize a creature in the corner. At first I thought a dog, but now am wondering if it's another wild cat in a rasta hat. In any case,…

He looks only slightly possibly a relative of Timothy Leary, but that can't be it. Is he your Uncle Jack? My Uncle Jack doesn't look enough like him: 

Help.

Here is another collage by Erni, whose collages are really appealing to me:

There's…

Fantastic collages--they knocked my sox off.

Next come the latest crushed cans from Erni, always a thrill, and in this group the one at the upper right especially kills me. It is so flat--flatter than usual--and some of it seems to be…

Catherine says this is the artistic result of a conversation we had a while ago: 

This is a monotype+collage, and I think it's brilliant--evocative, stylish, and detailed yet with a certain undefinable atmosphere. Catherine tells me not to worry, this guy "looks grumpy but he's sweetness itself!"  I love it, Catherine, thank you very much.  Very nice, artful envelope…

And I love it: Beautiful composition and use of color. The piece is hard as a rock, like everything I've received from Judith, and there is something very appealing about that aspect too. (It might almost be bulletproof, like Erni's packaging!) Her lyrical words, which she often includes, are on the back and are lovely and appreciated. Thank you so much, Judith ~…

A great deal of richness in these two mailings, the first on "outsider" art:

The second, Solstice II, begins with a wonderful asemic collage by Theresa--torn out of her own journal--accompanied by a Kenneth Ames quote on the back:…

If this is simple, as Erni says, then I love simple: It's a vibrant and somewhat sculptural piece, and I fell in love with it immediately, including the rattle Erni fashioned by putting the Vitam jar lid inside a slightly bigger jar lid there toward the bottom. It makes a great noise, and I have no idea how Erni got the one lid into the other. There are no obvious signs of…

Giant candy bar. It's gone now. DeLISHious! Erni collaged the whole thing so tight that I wanted to take a hammer to it, BUT that would have destroyed the collage. You can see what's left--rather interesting things going on in Erni's brain, I'd say, probably…

Alicia sent this piece that fascinates me: The ragged edges along with the hints of rulers, punch cards, hole punch -- favored office supplies of not long ago -- make an intriguing combination. And it's all brought up to date with her wonderfully loose asemic writing.  I see punch cards because those little horizontal marks in varying rows remind me of the stacks of punch cards…

And here she is, a lovely lady, in a collage by Roberto:

I love the composition and colors, Roberto!  La Tia Julia is identified not only in a nice note from Roberto but also on the back of the collage.  I think she must be special to him:

The…