Zack's Blog – June 2023 Archive (20)

Hooray! Hooray!

Ticket! Ticket!

¡Boleto! ¡Boleto!  these sheets of stamps are always amazing; Series 11 does not disappoint!…

Fleur made this lovely collage incorporating mosaic motif from the Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland); looks like a pretty cool place - "Text Me", their next expo, opens on July 14, so if you're nearby check it out. …

love the variety of textures and asemia on this collage card --

-- which arrived with a whole lotta stamps and papernalia - -

and look who's on the envelope! …

assorted space age material including essential eclipse equipment and an orange body in suspended animation.

[notice the considerate notice that acknowledges Mark's quiet departure from IUOMA, upper right]

so much stuff!

note the DadaLand eastern egg [reproduction] set atop the Graf Zeppelin stamps (lower left). all this stuff came with a handy Fluxus Imperial Corporate Identification Manual, full of easy-to-use protocols for almost every possible situation:…

what a coincidence! i never minded being called weird, but i just recently learned that it's also an acronym --

for: Western Educated Industrial Rich Democratic --

which changes things a little for me. now, i'd mind if someone said i had a weird bias (yeah, that's a thing). 

still, i believe 'Debra,…

ever an evangelist for postal practices, Jack performs an act of artistic resurrection, sending out a meta-postcard (or a post-metacard?) of a fallen/stray envelope.

sounds like the subject in question was a found object, encountered/photographed during a walk around Olympia.

i can imagine a huge house of cards made with multiple…

from Bordeaux comes a postcard-size sous-vide tableau. if i put it in boiling water, will a canvas emerge?

];-) merci Helene!

this piece makes part of me wonder what the Sistine Chapel might look like under the influence of some mind-altering substance. the other part of me feels like i'm holding hands across the globe. oh, the places we go, thanks to Mail Art. 

i also like the way this piece fits with its bright pink envelope --…

from far-off Kansas comes some octopus art and a terrific write-up of Coco's high-school hijinks (those students were lucky to have you). thanks so much for sharing; keep spreading the joy of mail art ]:-)

the fractured face brings Orlan to mind - (wonder what she looks like these days...) - and could those be Flux Fish on the other card?

muchas gracias Sabela

so, the official DADALand egg art facilitator (Juan Petry) appointed me an official "egg holder", and sent me these cutouts to transform and then let fly from the nest. the incubation process took a little bit of time, but eventually i came up with six of one -

and half a dozen of another --…

she's done it again; another fabulous Bon-zine! and 'Fiesta Peach' to boot. 

i certainly don't mind this kind of spam; keep it coming!

these birds look like they are having a good time.

of course, dancing of all sorts is highly encouraged dans la maison du Dr Zack ];-)

merci awyn

from Tunbridge Wells comes a collage in soothing tones, what might be a gelli plate print (?), and a darling ATC, which will help remind me to check my head size from time to time.  

the envelope features more colorful Gilesian imagery --…

thank you SR for this very cool double/alternating image postcard  (very hard to capture photographically...)

can someone out there confirm if it's correct to refer to this as 'lenticular'? my research…

amusing little postcard - timely, perhaps?

but look at the date in the upper right hand corner; so, wishful thinking from the past. 

still, thanks Jokie - orange IS my second favorite color, after all ];-)

two lovely, simple scrap art pieces from Portugal.

hoping to join Eduardo and company soon in Adam R's rubber stamp portrait project --

you can send me poesia any time,…

a summer birdy in a pleasingly textural environment (how does she make those crinkles?), green alphabetics, and a hand-carved eraser stamping, plus this lovely two-sided creation, perfect for the christmas tree.…

this mysterious typed sentiment arrived from Germany, by way of Juan Petry. looks like part of a random and/or introductory dragonian Mail Art project; i wonder if T&D even know who their card was sent to...? 

thanks to all involved (putting something in the mail to them all…