Ilya Semenenko-Basin's Blog (440)

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.…

I would like to list the names of the dear friends whose art-messages were handed to me at the post office today by a blonde woman in a white jumper.…

I already have the envelope from Valentina Cozzi! Thank You, Valentina.

Mail Art by Silvia Dubois. The post office delivered an envelope to me from Paal in Belgium. Thank you, Sil!!!…

An envelope came in the mail from Francis Lammé, who lives in Culemborg in the Netherlands.

Inside is an exquisite message on several sheets of paper, only some of which fit in these photos. Also discovered inside are miniature pictures in the same black and white style. Thank You, Francis!!!…

I received some lovely mail art from Carien van Hest from the Nederlands, and discovered that I hadn't yet posted a photo of a previous message from Carien! I apologise. So, in August, I received this hand-painted envelope in the mail:

Sometimes mail-art artists send each other materials for further use. Dear friends, if You use old photos and postcards in Your collages, I can send You something - old photos of Soviet film actors and stuff like that. Of course, my offer is open to those participants who make collages using "everyday rubbish" in the spirit of Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg.

Thank You! Some great Mail Art from Kiki (Osaka, Japan) and Jimmy Connors (Berlin, Germany) came in the mail. I'm glad. 

I've received great Mail Art from Laurent Wilmet (Namur, Belgium) and Michelangelo Mayo (San Jose, CA, USA). Michelangelo was in the UK at the time and managed to send the envelope to Moscow (mail reaches us from the UK). Thank You!!! …

On my birthday, I received many wonderful congratulations, for which I am very grateful. On this day, my parents gathered and the three of us went to an organic restaurant. The owner of the restaurant has a large farm in the countryside, where he has cows, orchards, a bakery and a cheese factory, and so on. Own products grown in good conditions are used for…

Mail Art came from Mail_Art_Martha. Thank You!!!