Some mail Art

This is the reverse of the sunflower piece I sent to a mailart call in Ukraine, It’s organized by Roman Golub (no relation) I sent in an envelope not knowing how long it would be in transit and I didn’t want it to get beat up. 

I used a photo I’d taken at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in the summer and extended it using Derwent Inktense pencils. I hope it arrives safely. 

UPDATE: This piece arrived in Ukraine. It took only a month. I'm so happy.

I altered a postcard of a planet using circles and lining up the “images” on them to the edges of the planet. I liked how it turned out. 

 A friend added to my collection of old postcards and another friend sent me a note on the back of a page from a vintage book about mushrooms. One seemed appropriate for altering the postcard. It made me laugh and I hope the recipient laughs too. 

We need more laughter these days. What makes you laugh? 

Playing with a pen!

 

Perforated photos (more of them)

 Diana Hale, perforator extraordinary, Mailartist, sent me perforated photos. I have no idea who these people are. But they are no longer as close as they used to be. The blue dots are an homage to John Baldessari. 

Perforated photos

 A mailart friend, Diana Hale, offered to perforate some photos for me. I sent her old photos we had, who we couldn’t identify. They came from my husband’s family. And She returned them plus a few more from her own stash. They were fun to play with. I call the series “They had been closer in the past’

two zines

 I’ve a renewed interest in these small zines. Probably because of the group on IUOMA. Photos out of order, oh well. 

I like to amuse myself

 I was lucky to received some “embellished” by Ken Brown postcards and I further embellished/altered them. One is an homage to John Baldessari 

Time flies by…

 During this never ending pandemic, I’m still having the sense of time as no time, though I have a schedule I created by belonging to book clubs and PostcardstoVoters groups. Thanks to Zoom! But day to day it become a blur of days. I’m lucky to have my little studio. 

A finch eating sunflower seeds from a flower head. 

Sunflowers growing along walkway at museum. 

A recently complete mural by two wonderful local artists. The building is a dance studio. 

An example of the postcards I write to get out the voters. And a  card I recently mailed out. I’m thinking a lot about peace. Peace inside myself, peace in my country, peace for Ukraine, and what is so hard about being peaceful!?  I think about that. 

A quiet day in my studio

An altered postcard that is had since we were in Mexico City in 2017. It called for some more bands. With color. 

This was a lot of fun, it’s the result of my playing around with the Layout App on my phone and some photos I too off the TV screen of the Kentucky Derby. 

I added arms to the man and then added the man to a postcard I had from a museum in Canada. I sent it off already so can’t check on the info   The image below is an altered photo image that I cut off of a card, maybe a Christmas card? It was so Nice I didn’t want to Toss it so I altered it. Now it has a new life as Mailart. Have you done that?

 

I'm still not sure how to get an image loaded where I see it, and not code, which is what I see while I'm typing this rignt now. i'm sure the image will post but this is very different from how this worked previously. Disconcerting. I'm not giving up, though. Would you? This image I created for an e-mailart project to email to a mailartist in Ukraine. He received it, that I know as he answered back, but how he is right now, I don't know. Best of wishes to him.

THANKS dear friends for letting me know how to fix this! 

Catching up on Mailart - 2

Lately, I've been having trouble getting images up onto my blog and to IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists. I don't know why, and because I don't know why, I can't fix it. I had planned to put information about the pieces that I posted in my previous post but was unable to do so as the images came up as code with no way for me to know where one image stopped and another began, so no info, thus my own comment on my own posting. I had hope to be more active again on this blog, as in the past, but that looks like it won't happen. too bad. Not that I have a lot of visitors, but this was a nice archive for me. I'm going to attempt to add a photo to this post. Wish me luck (me to myself) Well, it's showing up here as code. I hope it appears as an image in the actual post. Puzzled, very puzzled.

Thanks to friends, I now know what I had to fix to! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Catching up with mailart

This is  a piece with circle to see if I could create a spatial illusion.

This is a series I made using;g a 9B water soluble graphite stick I got at Sennelier, in Paris. I added the rubber stamp dots to show isolation amidst confusion about what's going on with Covid19.

This piece, I received from Monster-A-GoGo. A shaped envelope that made it to me with no problem. He's re-retiring as he has health issues so this is a real treasure.

These two pieces are from my friend Katerina, in Thessaloniki. They took a very long time to arrive as mail from Greece (and to) is very slow. BUT arrive they did and I'm soapy to have them. Look at the cool Greek stamp!