Frieder Speck's Blog (172)

Some weeks ago I found a booklet in the mail and immediatly when I saw it I had to sing! First I wasn´t sure if I sing in tongues cause the letter came fom a french lady in Japan but then I saw the sheets of old german music called "The power of singing" and the fragments describe the travelling from a farwell to brothers to the door of the loved lady. And the middle sheet moans : "bloody quarrel, bloody quarrel...."…

I don´t know if I should say thank you.... Or what would you do if you may be infected with rabies? But I´m not very much afraid of wild animals like mailart. So thank you very much cause I´m already infected. But the wild animal came in a very domesticated envelope I nearly would say bureaucratic. we call it in german:"Wolf im Schafspelz". I think these are dangerous.....

But thank you anyway Carina!…

Svenja sends a "Bergpredigt" in pieces. But is´nt also a dictum for mailart: the more you waste, the luckier you are? But we are Goldhamster too, stockpiling pieces and pieces of mailgold.

Thank you Svenja!…

I think you can call it vintage maybe historic, ablack and green sketch from 1989 the "Wendejahr". Sometimes when I´m looking for mailartpieces in my drawers I find historic pieces and they carry the former time, shy sketches cause you are not sure if your eyes and fingers lead you the way you want, and thoughts printed from "Zeitgeist". In the drawing from Arttower you catch a view of his thoughts of 1989! Thank you Arttower!…

Carina Granlund sent a drawing machine, I would need one cause my time is so limited these months But it didn´t work! But I don´t complain about it, cause of beauty. 1000 kg thanks!

There came a wonderful package, wonderful paper to work with and some papers will find the way back I think, or will travel to discover the world, some will stay to be part of a book or…

Roberto Rios Thanks for your great mailart it seems your looking for an answer sorry Im not very fast these days digital normaly much slower in your case not Thanks alot and keep looking somethings on the way!…

I am very late with posting all the wonderful Mail art pieces I got so I have to start now or it doesen´t make sense any more.

Some weeks ago Ernie sent me the answer to my mousenest. From the outside everything looked like a typical Erni message

But at a point of putting away paper I startet to be a little afraid, causewhat could be the answer  on a mousenest? …

Danke Svenja, es ist was unterwegs!

Thank you for the deepseadrama! Im thinking about how to help against deepseafishsadness Thank you very much!

It must be a map to find a treasure, or something, I hope for Nancy to help me to get behind the secret. Anyway this card is a treasure itself! Tak the mücke ( sorry for german writing) to Finland

if I get such cards I´would like to have more courage to handle more intensive colours, and a great envelope too. Thank you very…

Great sketch on newspaper arrived me thank you very much,

Nadine sent me characters from baby till older people, from dusk till dawn full of life, thank you…

Its always a pleasure ("s` gfreit mi" the people in bavaria would say) to get a colourful letter from Guido Vermeulen It carries  the feeling of spring flowers and easiness but the black lines brings the content to his envelopes. Thank you

I really love this piece it is so colerful and balanced and I can identify the hand who made it. Its great to watch the development from mail to mail, and it would be nice to attend this path of art further on from time to time.

Who could sent me this? Someone who knowes to handle needle and thread, and has still access to an old common form of Information memory used long before the floppy disk called book.

If you are the first who knowes the answer you will get a old common form of mail called letter.…

Two great works from Michalis Kotsaris reached me one etching and one sketching. Great work on fine paper thank you very much for the art!…

This one is very difficult to describe, I will have new discoveries for long time. Its a book full of faces, you have to discover slowly and keep the touch to the threads that seem to hold the book together. But its like a cave full of spiderwebs it makes you stay and watch, look, code to the next side.

 Great work, Thank you very much C…

Now something to find out for you!

Do you know this artist? Look at the fine lines the control of colour structure and haptic elements. See the letters vanish in the landscape of asemic poetry.

Who made this? The one who knowes first will receive some mailart!…

These weeks are very busy times so I am far behind in putting great letters in blog posts too share. I don´t know if I manage to post all of them but I will start: I received a wonderfull piece of art from Karin Greenwood, it made the long way from South Afrika. Thank you very much, Please turn your Monitor to see the beauty from the right side. (blogreading is too easy, so I have to make it more amitious). Thank you Ka!rin…