Received: A-List Mail-Art from Lisa Iversen (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

 

 

Mail-art by IUOMA member Lisa Iversen (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

November 29, 2010 - A third installment of mail-art from Lisa Iversen arrived in my P.O. box last Saturday. I believe this is part of a series she has done using "Gulliver's Travels" as an anchor for collages. Other pieces like this she has done have been posted here at the IUOMA and have generated thoughful responses from recipients. Lisa likes to use old photos that have a documentary feel about them; and she also likes to dig into old books for material, which I appreciate too, This beautifully ripped page of synonyms and antonyms is fascinating and will easily provide a mail-art word for the day (thus we are interactive on several levels!) But all these different power words! I've been pondering these words and thought I had better provide a close up so you can have a look too:

 

 

This is great. What A-words do you find yourself responding to? My A List:

Abandon

Abridge

Absent

Absorb

Abstinence

Abstruse

Absurd

All fantastic words that have denotations and connotations. And Lisa sent them to:

 

 

Thank you, as ever, for the always interesting mail-art, Lisa.

Mail-art word for the day: Abstruse (TYLI)

Mail-art color for the day: Azure (TYAB) - As in: "Clear as an azure sky of deepest summer... I had something of a pain in the gulliver."

Mail-art fashion consultant: Blue shirt day

Mail-art psychic: "Roadkill mail-art: The postman always wrings twice on a bad hare day." LEARN CHINESE. Bus=shi: Shi flattens your hare. Lucky numbers: 30, 47, 29, 24, 18, 11

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Delete Comment Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, let the truth be told
(though you can't understand it from my goofs like "sent " and "send", like "are" and "our" R&R?)
Katerina - Maria (aka Catherine Marie) Matejovsky - Nikoltsou tis a born and raised Chicagoan from a Polish-American family, having spent the first 26 years of her life and schooling in the "home country= USA", left to teach the "natives" the fine techniques of ART..first in Istanbul by the azure Bosphorus and then in Thessaloniki by the azure shores of the Agean sea. I am Greek by marriage and by love of life :-)

p.s.DVS...Julian 's birthday is "tomorrow"...wow, a 1st! (December 1st)
but we can start celebrating today :-)

[De Villo Sloan]

Old fortune cookies stuffed in a drawer from Chinese takeout. Not sure what I'll do when they're gone. Order more takeout, I guess. Do they take Fluxus bucks?

[De Villo Sloan]

Hey - and speaking of birthdays, did you see? It's Julian Grant's birthday (Julian of the Chicago School). Happy birthday Julian Grant!

[De Villo Sloan]

Katerina, I can't tell you how much I admire you. English is not your first language, right? Wordplay is very difficult even if you are well-versed. Hooray for Chicago! Yes: Blue Shirt Day at IUOMA. Cheryl had a nice one, but I believe she donated it to the Flux Museum.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

The postman's allspice wrings mice on a Baden Herr way.
...and yes, it is a blue shirt day (with my professor in Chicago)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

ABSTRUSE...definitely!
It's in "You've Got Mail".....really.
And, DVS, you've got mail!