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!

Some Mail Art - in and out

I received some Circle Mail Art from Sil in Belgium and sent a piece out to her same day. I've been lax about sending. I'm trying to be better about it and sending as I receive, BUT what to do about the pile up on my studio table - all wonderful gifts of incoming from Mail Artists around the world. Any ideas would be appreciated!

A Memorial Poem

NAMES It's that time of year - the holy time - when we formally - communally - remember - and say the names aloud - of those - no longer with us - I'm thinking - this year - of the names - how long it would take - to read them aloud - so many people gone - everywhere - in the newspaper - I say the names aloud - of people I don't know - and yet - feel the need to say their names - aloud - Ida - Earl - Alfreda - Marvin - Robert - Shirley - Cornelius - Verlina - and Casey - Aloud - Giving momentary substance. -in memory- 09.15.2021