Received: Green mail-art from Lisa Iversen (North Manchester, Indiana, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

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

November 2, 2010 - At long last I received mail-art from IUOMA friend Lisa Iversen. At first, I thought the main attraction of this package was the striking picture of a creature made of found objects below - love the bottle caps. The envelope had a hole in it when I picked it up at the P.O. When I opened it, there was a leaf, corn husk, and some parched corn. I wondered if a very small animal had gotten inside. I focused on the picture at first. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked the natural objects. Sometimes I open old books to find pressed leaves and flowers from some lost season - it's all so 19th century. However isn't the very current idea in play finally to merge art and life back together again? Is this some kind of agri-flux? I was ultimately so moved by what Lisa had done that I decided to place the leaves and husk above as the main feature of the mail-art. But don't miss the cool pic:

Then there's the usual suspect:

Neat stamps. And some really nice graphic work on the other side:

Exhibit A: You can see the hole I'm talking about. I guess that would have been a really small animal, huh? If I look the right way through the hole when I'm standing up, I can look at my shoe. A performance score after all? Anyway, Lisa has a very good blog I used to visit from time-to-time (until she went MIA completely) because she had a video of the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" (a serious fav) that I had never seen/heard before and some wild numerological thing by, I think, Burroughs or someone similar about the number 23 or something, and it struck me as having possibly some significance but then again not likely because, after all, there are all sorts of theories like that but I wouldn't bet the farm, or the corn, or even the husks on them. Check out Lisa Iverson's blog:

http://www.skybridgestudios.blogspot.com/

She has an excellent William Blake poem posted - strange - his name has come up recently in discussions with other IUOMA friends.

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