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i received Mail Art from Mindaugas

always nice to take a drip trip to Mindaugasland 

and it looks like Zygimantas has moved from markers to paint... or paint-markers...? …

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Added by Zack on September 19, 2025 at 5:34pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from William M

and now for something completely different ];-)

thanks William for all your acivity ★

Added by Zack on September 19, 2025 at 5:28pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from Jokie Wilson (et al)

eternal network boomerangs

recent postcards from Jokie feature artwork by The Sticker Dude, Adam Roussopolous, and Fike (Ficus Strangulensis) - what goes around comes around ]:-)

Added by Zack on September 19, 2025 at 5:24pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Nick Tauro Jr

fun readymade redux

('it's always the others who mail art')

Added by Zack on September 18, 2025 at 10:15am — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Cascadia Artpost

loose slops sink shops (3x fast)

sad but true reflection of where we're at; hope the fall comes soon, and is less uncomfortable than the rise  ]:-(

Added by Zack on September 18, 2025 at 10:08am — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from Ed Giecek

kitchen sink collage - wild composition with lots of texture. merci Ed

Added by Zack on September 18, 2025 at 10:02am — No Comments

i received Mail Art from William M

a collision of surprise and recognition; William's deft balance of variety and consistency is super stylish -

- and stylistically super! lots of cool colors shine through this collagraph-plate-cum-postcard. much appreciated.

Added by Zack on September 16, 2025 at 5:59pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from P. M. Wilson

yes this is good advice. and whenever i hear these words, i go right to the visually stunning musical number from 'Funny Face' (i'll put a link below in the comments). PMW was also extremely kind and generous to send along some vintage stamps by William Rowe. …

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Added by Zack on September 16, 2025 at 5:52pm — 2 Comments

i received Mail Art from Bonniediva

special thanks to an anchor of the community for this special delivery!

let them eat more cake! makes sense, since this probably hit my mailbox sometime shortly after July 14... and of course it's always fun to peruse back issues of Bonzine - …

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Added by Zack on September 16, 2025 at 5:44pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from dystatic

the envelope is decorated with what look to be some pretty trippy geraniums (or is it 'gerania'?) 

- and inside are all these very cool op-art ATCs - spiritual spectrographix - each a little gem 

and to…

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Added by Zack on September 14, 2025 at 3:51pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Jim Hayes

these xerocollages make me wonder about Jim's process - some techniques are more mysterious than others, no? different kinds of challenges...

this second one is a really long piece of paper for a xerox!…

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Added by Zack on September 14, 2025 at 3:34pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Carien van Hest

some very pleasing artistamps from Holland - 

to those middle fingers (!), the answer has to be yes; we cannot give up on the possibilities for peace.

also included: a very special hand-crafted bookie - …

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Added by Zack on September 14, 2025 at 3:13pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Cascadia Artpost

Jack is so devoted to the cause... here's a commemorative booklet from what looks like a fantastic gathering -

and produced so soon after the event (even though i'm just posting now, this 'catalogue' actually arrived last month) - very impressive. greetings and congratulations to all who participated - keep it…

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Added by Zack on September 8, 2025 at 1:36pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from Darko Vulic

another striking polychromatic textural orphic talisman from Switzerland; thank you!

Added by Zack on September 8, 2025 at 1:30pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Hester Souverijn

a rainbow of rubber stampings on the envelope, with another owl and an eye inside. also, a texture-heavy 'punchcard' and a pink slip with shadowscape featuring palm trees, bats, and even a montgolfière ]:-)…

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Added by Zack on September 8, 2025 at 12:38pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from nonlocal variable

crevicism in its maximalist manifestation!

luckily, this is all indexed in a handy guide:

kinda cool to know that Guy Debord is alive and well and living in...Beaverton? Olympia?

keep up…

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Added by Zack on September 1, 2025 at 5:40pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from Blaine Waterman

the other side of this postcard features a cringing statue of liberty; hang in there!

Added by Zack on September 1, 2025 at 5:23pm — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Jokie Wilson

i always see red when i think of Jokie ];-)

thanks for each and every postcard

Added by Zack on September 1, 2025 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

i received Mail Art from Terry Owenby

Terry made the original of this print two years ago as part of a '100-day Challenge' in which she made one original postcard a day for 100 days. that's dedication (i have trouble with just a week-long challenge!). some structures pay off; i'm glad to be the recipient. see you in the…

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Added by Zack on August 25, 2025 at 11:38am — No Comments

i received Mail Art from Cascadia Artpost

official documentation of the 'Flux Bombing' from June 29. check out that bird mask sported by non; very cool. it's nice to see that they (Jack, Darlene, and non) credit Jon Foster and assure us that no arrests have occurred (yet), despite the designation of 'Arterrorism'. this may look like a postcard, but according to a note on the reverse side, it…

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Added by Zack on August 25, 2025 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

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