Ben the Bin (the goings on) - from Katerina Nikoltsou

[Marie Wintzer]

Katerina cracked me up with this card, and I am certainly not the only one. What a fantastic way to depict the IUOMA Zeitgeit, and what a great sense of humor. I have to admit I sometimes find it hard to find my way with things at IUOMA moving so fast. Zalop, asemic, haptic, trashpo, sandpo, 365, holes, anti-holes, you name it. Pfiuuu, it's a real sport. Oh, and I forgot the year of the squirrel rabbit, how sweet you remembered that I am one of those guys, Kat. But my favorite part is the fantastic asemic writing, what a laugh :-))
Ben the Bin will have to sort out all this mess, but for now he is busy doing my dishes, so I'll leave him alone for a while. 
This mail certainly made my day and will make me laugh for a long time, thank you Katerina!

 

[De Villo Sloan]

Yip, I'm sure it's a squirrel.

[Marie Wintzer]

I think you might be right Katerina!!! :-)) Rabbits have very small tails, and this one is, errrr, majestic? :-)) I should have noticed. I keep laughing, and edited the text :-)))

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

You know, Marie, I sent Ben-the-bin to you and to Carla Cryptic for your  "born-in-a -year-of-the-rabbit". But now that I look closely at that "rabbit" sticker...maybe it is a squirrel? Or a rabbit with a squirrel tail? A hybrid for sure! Well, it is the thought-that-counts by Bennie! Keep laughing!

[Marie Wintzer]

Oh, I forgot, it's a great card by GA, you'll laugh. Will put it up soon.

[Marie Wintzer]

Marie Antonette digs Katerina too! And there will indeed be cherry blossoms flying around in some envelopes in the near future. Like, tomorrow.

But Sloan, you're a bit unfair to LeGrigstaire. The monkey business was very entertaining. I don't know anyone else in the world who would be able to make monkeys produce mail art for them. And yesterday I got a very sweet postcard from him, by Rayal mail ;-))

[De Villo Sloan]

Kat is on a roll these days. I love the work I'm seeing. I relate to your commentary here, Marie. We have entire arts movements budding (like cherry blossoms?) in a matter of weeks. It's staggering. And Katerina is making stamps to chronicle them. Let's us not forget the recent past: mail-art holy wars, Antonism (Marie Antonette ( still my favorite) monkeys... 

 

BTW - I have to tell you this. Who else would understand? Swinx from Germany recently posted a wonderful video documenting a mail-art show she had. BUT there is a segment where she's going around taking shots of the mail-art hanging on the walls. For a moment, the camera lingers on a postcard by GA. This was his earlier work, and it stuck out like a sore thumb. There was all this great mail-art, and here is this crude, inept postcard making some sort of lame joke. It truly did look as if a monkey had done it. I didn't have the heart to leave Swinx a message suggesting she edit that monstrosity out. So I'm telling you. Mail-art is great, but we'll take anyone.

[Marie Wintzer]

Oh, that's him alright!!!! He looks more jolly on this picture.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Glad Ben brought you a good laugh, Marie! And here is what he looks like when he is neat and clean....and grinning :