Bifidus Jones's Blog (246)

and it's cuddly just the way I like it. arigato, Marie-san!

Mean Dean the Dancing…

Cuan has a wonderful gift for adding transparent layers to mail art. I like the flowing hair, the text, the soft paint strokes, the tape, and the faint dates conjuring up past and fleeting moments.…

Richard does have a point. He always has a point, a thought to ponder. Let's not stockpile anything. Let's run out of stuff and see what that feels like. Liberated, if we're lucky. Richard also sent me some terrific buffalo logos:…

Not a machine for the masses, I'd say. Using this thing requires skill, sobriety, and a penchant for knowing which way is up in order to avoid getting your eyebrows singed, fingers cut, and all the good will this world can muster fried in the Drone Zone. A masterpiece if there ever was one, Monsieur Herman. Merci!…

A gentle, kinder kind of anarchy. Katerina's partner in crime, Mark has sent me a couple of fantastic mail art pieces. This first one, in black and white, confesses that "He's got a Daytime Job He's doing alright." That's saying a lot these days. I like the doo-hinky buttons/keys and MR OFF is wonderful.…

Lesley's lovely drawings are always a welcome sight. The added bone(?) collage is like a sculpture and the asemic writing adds mystery. I particularly like the figure's hand (must be the Haptic in me). It comes across as strong yet nurturing. A nice overall sense of self-love here. Lesley created fun negative space for the envelope:…

NEED SPACE?

yes

Pretty  much guaranteed--no one will know who you are...anoymous like you would not believe!

that's exactly what i'm looking for

Connections broken while you wait

i do have a bus to…

The gentleman sleeping on the left side of the photo is charming enough, but what about the bloke on the right? Did his head spontaneously combust from reading all of mankind's past? All our glories, all our sins? Perhaps he actually came across the definition of trashpo...…

Nancy has sent me some mail art providing evidence of Big Foot in Norway, more specifically in Oslo in the Trashpo neighborhood--too bad the map spelled it wrong. May I dare hope Big Foot is considering mail art in the vein of trashpo too? I am also lucky enough to receive one of Nancy's IUOMA bumper stickers--gonna put it on my wheel barrow and wheel it down the…

It became clear that Marie is a genius at putting together lovely works of mail art with found objects. From the pages of mathematics, the film strip, the thread, and paper clip, to the staples and asemic writing in foggy white, this piece is flying high.…