Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (450)

Participants of our portal may remember that earlier I offered to donate my Mail Art collections in favour of one of Moscow museums. I wanted to create a replenishable Mail Art collection in my city. It was not possible to do this right away, I kept the little that was sent to me in a cardboard box at home. Finally, in October 2024, the “Garage Museum of Contemporary Art”, became interested in the subject. I put the information about the Garage Museum in the first comment under the…

I hasten today to thank my dear friends who have sent in their Art. Sorry, this is just a short review, no details yet.

In the last year I have significantly decreased my activity on the Internet. While continuing to make collages, keeping my interest in the works of my Mail Art friends, I don't have time to take photos of the mail I receive, nor to post photos in social networks on the Internet. You may get the impression that I'm disappearing from Mail Art, but I'm not. Rather, I am…

Michelangelo Mayo from California (USA) sent me his little thing in a decorated envelope. The mail came to me in a roundabout way, through a third party. The first photo shows an envelope, the second one shows a collage inside the envelope. Thank You, Michelangelo.…

I thank Laurent Wilmet, who sent me the Mail Art from Namur (Belgium). The drawing for the concert was applied manually. Inside there is an elegant print.…

Christophe Massé has kindly informed me about my participation in the Mail Art event. Thanks!

Mail Art de Martine Latrille. Je Vous suis reconnaissant.

I will continue to publish photos of Mail Art. Right now, I am writing to one of the participants of the IUOMA forum that here, in Eastern Europe, there was a terrible confusion of concepts, problems that had been unresolved in the past came out. Perhaps we can look to the future with hope? I don't know that yet, we'll see. Meanwhile, I'm…

This beautiful thing, made with a brush on paper, came from awyn in the mail from Canada. And a packet of postage stamps for collages. Thank You!!! 

Sabrina Schmider sent me this Christmas card from Hannover a long time ago, and I will publish this thing on the threshold of summer!

I am very glad that the MONSTER-A-GOGO sent me his work six months ago. The mail came, of course, not directly, but through an intermediary. Probably, since then, the MONSTER-A-GOGO has not participated in the art mailing list.…

I am very grateful to everyone who sent me Mail Art in the 2023 and into the new year. Dear friends, let me limit myself to publishing photos of the new mail. Now it is not possible to make a full description of each artifact, to name the authors. I really hope the artists will forgive me for my laconism. …

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So, I finally got Mail Art from Dadanautik (Bremen), Filip Goubert (Hamme), "Morningmoss Embassy" (Martock), Dr. Zach (Cotignac) and Willemien Visser (Zwolle). The holidays are over and the postal service has woken up. Here I am ready to show the postal envelopes of the received letters, and soon I will tell You about the…

It's nice to know that the mail is working and human connections are not interrupted. I finally have the big mail envelope from Willemien Visser! 

Georges Simenon has a novel “Il y a encore des noisetiers” (There Are Still Some Hazel Trees), I remember my father reading it when I was little. So looking at this portal in the evenings, I am happy to say: There Are Still Some Hazel Trees, Mail Art is alive!

Actually, that's all I wanted to say today.

November 23, 2023 I posted a picture of the Mail Art from Silvia Dubois, or rather just the beautiful mailing envelope alone. It's time to post the rest of the photos as well.…