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After 50 years of correspondence, two icons finally meet and drop some dope a** sh*t for all y’all. This is a pone exclusive. …

Send 20 5x8 inch pages to: 

Picasso Gaglione 

4508 Plymouth Rd

Knoxville TN 37914

Stamp each page once or into infinity. Each page can be unique or same as the previous. Number and sign each of your 20 pages. Picasso will mail you a copy of the stampzine when complete. 

dear all. i'm ill. i've not been responding to or sending out work for quite some time. i never finished archiving that beautiful zalop show that many of you participated in. that was almost a year ago now. 

i've been wanting to hurt myself for a long time now. friday i will start weekly therapy that i have needed for 20+ years. i have to get back on an ssri to stop the madness going on in my head. unfortunately that wont happen for a few more weeks. 

i just wanted to…

Open Call for Submissions

Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery is pleased to announce that it will present Zalop: Illusory Correspondence Art, to open February 15, 2014 and run through March 16, 2014.

The show will comprise a wide range of styles and media. The curator will consider old, new, Fluxus, Asemic, MailArt, performance scores/art,…

this person follows my blog on tumblr and has reblogged my art more than a few times. after the second time, i started to browse around her blog to investigate. it turned out to be, well look at the name on the corner of envelope. i started clicking some links and found an address for her work. sent her some mail art. then sent her another piece about a year later. having gained her trust, i asked her a few weeks ago to send me some cardboard waste and i would deface it and return it to her.…

Fine Art is on a tear, the ripping kind. please enjoy these cards.

also: Dear Iuoma members, i know this is not necessary, but i just wanted to say something. My blog posts are minimal in words. I can't help it. i sit at the keyboard and nothing comes out. I'm good for quips and non-sequiturs that's about it. 

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Fat envelope of cool weird shit from WatermellonWorld - T. Luetkehans - Iowa City IA - http://watermellonworld.tumblr.com

Drawing: 

Zine: …

Submission #2 for Hannah Hoch fanclub

- All paper collage.

Free rubber stamp via R. Altemus for participation.…

Thank you for the mail-arts

K.S. Chambers:

FineArt:

C.Z. Lovecraft:

Ron Emolo:…

So early last week i posted this defaced Album cover art on my Instagram feed (Michael Orr - username: _pone_ - please find and join me on there!)

Prince, Lovesexy, 1988 - this isn't really mailart, just something I did a while back. 

Saturday I recieved this in the mail, It's made out of the exact same album cover:…

Miniature handmade book and it's content - posted as close as possible to actual size 1.25x1.25 inches - Rejin Leys - Jamaica NY - rejinleys.com/

and some handmade chick magnets:…

Mr/Mrs Lovecraft(?) always sends a few ATC's with their overwhelming envelopes for you to add to and rtn to him/her. I always insert them directly into a postcard as opposed to just using the ATC by itself.

I don't know if this(or these) are considered collaborations, but that's what I'm going to call it/them. First image is of a goodie package from Jon Foster. I used almost the entire content of the envelope to create the piece in the second image. …