All Blog Posts Tagged 'trashbook' (18)

Today's the day (maybe) when the UK leaves was supposed to leave the EU.

Mail Art Martha sent this fantastic trashpo book on that very topic...…

As the next one I would like to show you the Birthday Bookie from Vizma Brūns

.I got it a long time ago, but since a while I was gone from here, I can say - better late than never. (Latvian saying: Labāk vēlu nekā nekad)

Birthday bookie cover:…

This trashbook from Neil is raw and real, as all his mail art is. The boekie's pages held a letter and so just a few selected pages are shown in this post--plenty to appreciate the rawness and reality: …

someone is maybe making a million pizzas…

The "mighty sacred trash heap," you see, is "immortal," and very much, "not dying."…

Diane Keys sent me an envelope of goodies! I received these wonderful Nippon-Koku (The State of Japan) stamps, an add-and-pass from Marguerite E. Keen, and this phenomenal (as always!) trashbook. …

Receiving this folio (and more) was like winning an art lottery I didn't know I'd entered, so unexpected, beautiful, and big in impact:

With a trashbook that takes the aesthetic trashbook to new heights: …

Fresh dispatch from the Queen of Trash(po)! A fantastic trashbook. Don't you love this cover? It's my favorite part of the book. Along with the binding.…

This piece was a thrill to find in the envelope--colors, text, use of paint, all aspects of Diane's work that I love: 

There are some DKult lessons in the beauteous trashbook below, including topics such as cooperation, courtesy, all the things in which I'm terribly deficient, so it's great that Diane sent this to me:…

Katerina is sending me this trashbook, and I apologize for the photos, they don't do justice to the work, the sun is letting me down these days. At the heart of it, a little treasure: a fake real / real fake John Bennett shopping…

 She wanted this trashbook pale and snowy, like the season: 

It's very successful both as a trashbook and in fulfilling her wish for me to have white trash. I love it! Thank you very much, Diane, I too am fulfilled!  Four more photos follow, and viewers will see that some holiday color did sneak in there. A favorite is the 2nd Place ribbon in the last photo. It…

What more could a trashpo executive ask for? Diane wrote that this is the first low-budget certificate of nomination for the TrashPo-litzer, but perhaps "executive" is too glorious a word for the mere manager of the claims department. I should be more humble, and this card she included helps with that (note the VOID): …

It's in the trashpo group, but also belongs here:…

A trash book from our trashpo leader:

That's the front, and this is the back:

Diane and her work have made me finally understand why I save stuff, why I love the crooked edges and wrinkles and accidents on the detritus of our lives: because they're…