RECEIVED: Psychic Reading & Fur of the Dog from Angie & Snooker (Port Washington, Wisconsin, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA members Angie Cope and Snooky the Amazing Mail-Art Dog (Port Washington, Wisconsin, USA)

 

April 3, 2011 - As many IUOMA members know, nothing exactly equals the experience of having your mailbox brightened by work from the dynamic duo of Angie & Snooker. These pieces I am posting are my favorites so far. Part of the package included the three fortune cookie predictions above that were wrapped in brown paper, wound with red thread, and sealed with wax (the wax is responsible for the smudging).

 

This was very interactive because I was presented with choices from the start. Angie & Snooker can certainly be the guest Mail-Art Psychics for the day. And now the truth can be told: Angie once worked in a Chinese restaurant. She sent me an envelope bursting with fortunes, and many of them were used in the Mail-Art Psychic feature. So many thanks for that. This is the centerpiece of the mailing:

 

This piece, and I am sure Angie is reminding me of my obsessions and weaknesses, is asemic-sandpo-haptic-vispo-cut-up-collage mail-art (and I probably left out a few). After all, Angie is named in the original Sandpo Manifesto; so she does have something to uphold here.

 

The incredible gem is at the bottom. Unless I am mistaken, this is a real piece of fur from the very real Snooker the Amazing Mail-Art Dog. It is incredibly soft; and no, it did not trigger a violent allergic reaction like the first piece of haptic art Katerina Nikoltsou sent me from Greece. Here is the reverse:

 

Angie and the Snooks encased this all in a see-through envelope. Jen Staggs (Texas) did some great work with these I saw posted at the IUOMA. I thought I had received one from her too, but it turns out it was something else and I did not. Here is Snooker's envelope. Perfect right down to the Jackson Pollock stamp:

 

 

Many, many thanks AC & STAMAD. I am taking the sheep shears to Simba in order to respond.

[DKeys]

This is great stuff Angie. She also said she was dabbling in trashpo be collecting choice garbage for me! Haptasemsandbiotraspo. Hair of the dog gives me all kinds of ideas

[De Villo Sloan]

gourd-geous pic Angie. yet another side of Snooky. i've been spammed, but I haven't been yammed

[De Villo Sloan]

stop the yam-mering! karen finley is mc yammer!

[De Villo Sloan]

hijacked yes, I'm fur-ious. How did we go from Snooker to Karen Finley? Performance art, I suppose. Yams look like sweet potatoes. I deleted most of the Finley stuff. I found yam jam too. Wouldn't want to offend anyone. There are clubs that feature performance art and galleries do it too. I think Finley did/does that circuit. Just to wrap it up, she didn't only smear herself with the yams, she did some physical things with them that kinda stretched the limits of her body - I'll leave the rest to your imagination. With something like that, it's the shock value mostly. I don't think The Snooks can match that. At least we hope Angie doesn't go in that direction. Thanks Laurence, don't try the yam thing at home kids.

[Laurence Roberts]

This is really absorbing and multi fasceted

[Marie Wintzer]

Can't find that picture, I think I deleted it. Daikons must be yums, not yams. Aren't yams just some kind of sweet potatoes? What would I know... the shape is similar. I can see where that lady Finley is going with her yam jam, but still, I'd rather eat them baked, and not from her. How do you actually stage such shows? It's hard to imagine. You show up on a stage, hello everyone, and then just start dubbing stuff on yourself? And how did she decide it is going to be candied yams and not, say, plain potatoes? OK, I have to stop here... once again a nice blog has been hijacked. Pardon....

[De Villo Sloan]

Ok, that's amazing. You had another one too. No need to find it. Marie, is it a yum or a yam? We have these things called yams. I forgot what they look like.

[Marie Wintzer]

That giant yum.

Since it is twisted and this is Japan it is believed to bring good luck. I guess you are starting to see a pattern here.

[De Villo Sloan]

just getting back on track - it is a great "found" page. I think the date is Oct 26. Yes, when you don't know the background it suggests all these mysterious codes and systems. I really puzzled over it. Windmills is intact with no spillage. I was in a panic because that rarely happens. In your note, you make a bit of a stand on trashpo. That's a volatile issue obviously, so won't go there. It's interesting to see what lines from the song people choose.

[De Villo Sloan]

the yam story was deleted