Gwendolynium's Blog – March 2022 Archive (12)

From Amy Candiotti, postcards in a spirograph envelope

Fun postcards and a note from Amy: a funky fun repro collage about Seattle and a dotty-eyed original. Love the spirograph/collage envelope and the vintage stamps, too. Thank you! Looking forward to continuing our correspondence!

Added by Gwendolynium on March 21, 2022 at 5:27pm — No Comments

Cool collection received from Luis Filipe Gomes

Lovely watercolor of a pomegranate: it looks like the Platonic ideal of a pomegranate, casting its shadow on the wall... Love the two-part bookmark of the goat and camel drawing, with solemn human-headed fish on the reverse,…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 21, 2022 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Incoming collage from MomKat

Sweet covid collage mail from Katerina, in an envelope with fun rubber stamps, thank you! It feels to me like a lonely covid virus gazing wistfully out the window at the full moon; I hope the virus doesn't…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 21, 2022 at 3:45pm — 4 Comments

From Cascadia Artpost, a portrait of a vampire rhino handler

Thank you, Jack!

Added by Gwendolynium on March 20, 2022 at 3:33am — No Comments

From Oscar Yeats, received SWIFT POST artistamps

This is a wonderful sheet of stamps and sticker; thoughtful and appropriate commentary on the death and destruction in our daily news, sigh, and all wrapped in a handsomely embellished envelope. Thank you, Oscar!

Added by Gwendolynium on March 20, 2022 at 3:26am — 2 Comments

Received this beautiful collage and calligraphy mail art from Richard Baudet

This collaged envelope is spectacular< love this woman contemplating the spheres of past and present, earth and moon, all around her. And Richard Baudet's dramatic calligraphic address are unmistakable. I am pleased and…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 20, 2022 at 2:31am — 1 Comment

Thank you to Cascadia Artpost for the back issue!

Such a cool project, jam-packed with oligarchs and their fancy cars at HO scale and dry political commentary. Shrine to Ghislaine, perimeter secured with luxury cars, it's amazing, I love…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 12, 2022 at 2:53am — No Comments

From William M, Rubber Postcard #13

Psyched to receive Rubber Postcard #13 from William M with lots of cool stuff in it. I…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 7, 2022 at 12:44am — 1 Comment

From Cascadia Artpost: Dada Trumph Motors newsletter that is practically a coffee table book

This is amazing; really enjoying reading about the oligarch exhibition, the PEZ truck, the vampire rhino... It is literally on my coffee table! Can we please seize the yachts and private planes of the American…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 6, 2022 at 11:43pm — No Comments

Received from Coco Muchmore

Lots of delight in this envelope, including another envelope! Heart beets, rainbow cats, and a sweet little foliage gouache with gold sparkles. So nice to get mail that gives generously, from so may different IUOMA comrades! So much better that reading the…

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Added by Gwendolynium on March 2, 2022 at 12:28am — No Comments

Colorful mail from Spain

Thank you, Sabela Baña, for the charming and colorful images! I especially like the giant yellow bicycle stamp on the envelope, which did indeed make me smile. :-D

Added by Gwendolynium on March 1, 2022 at 11:43pm — 2 Comments

Received from Debra Mulnick

Thank you for all the fun stamps in the beautiful envelope. I look forward eagerly to the day that particular show at the Theatre of the Absurd closes forever! Meanwhile, yep, still wearing a mask.

Added by Gwendolynium on March 1, 2022 at 11:29pm — No Comments

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