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16 entries today

Including this it is my 17th entry. So you can figure how much came in today. No way I can deal with these amounts of mail-art. But still. All who sent me something and what turned up today is archived...... Just have a look through all the items and see what one sometimes has to face: the P.O. Box is a museum. But it also causes a lot of work.

Others having the same problem?

Ruud

Letter to Jukka - Finland. I prepared it yesterday, and will work on the content today.  

Collage by Vittore on the other side of that blue card. 

Card by Vittore - backside. 

Card by Vittore Baroni. Typical how he sees archiving? Mail-Art in boxes. 

Card by Saval, backside. He is back into the network and wants me to know that. Very nice. I just have to find the time to answer to all that mail art I receive on just one single day. 

Letter from Vittore baroni that I received today. He received my envelopes (see previous BLOG entry of mail to him). He sends lots of info, cards, and says the next & latest OA will come out in january 2005. Will look foreward to that..... 

Card I made to surprise qbdp again. Will he find it again, even before he received the other envelope he already saw in digital format, but hasn't held it in his hand yet. He can read the backside of the card only when he has received it.... 

another IUOMA-card by Dale Roberts which I signed and will return. 

Guy Bleus - Belgium. I haven't heard from him for lots of months, and now he surprises me with a new project. The invitation is also the material on which you are supposed to work, so if you want to participate, you need an invitation by Guy. Over the years Guy Bleus from the Administration Center always has produced splendid catalogues. His archive is famous. So enough reasons to surprise him withy a good contribution, even when it includes cutting a piece from my hair, etc.... 

Letter from Julie (ex posto facto). Filled with fluxus bucks, the official list of participants. 

Is this mail-art? Please give your comments after reading!

Is this mail-art? They use a juried system. Anyone interested in projects like these? I actually received the invitation twice, so they are surely targetting the mail-art network.

Ken Leslie sent me this logo for the IUOMA 

Certificate by & for Lefebvre - France 

Letter from Lefebvre Bebastien - France 

Card from Saval - Ceska Republika - frontside 

Lots of mail-art today

It is a busy day today, and just when I don't have that much time to answer mail...... then it happens; a lot a mail-art comes in at my P.O. Box. Just too much to answer it all. I will try to illustrate it with images, but it seems it isn't my day today. The program Hello, which I use for uploading pictures, failed for a first time. I will try again...

Ruud

This artistamps sheet was made by Darlene Altschul back in 1997. She used the image of one of my envelopes and made this beautiful collage out of it.

On of my older envelopes came back to me again. Thanks Syl! Sent this one years ago to Jonathan. The brown structure came from the network, I transfroemd it into a silkscreen (part of a 7-colour piece that was printed on larger paper, I just printed a few fragments of envelopes to send out). The logo was originally made by Lon Spiegelman. Here I also made a silkscreen out of it and printed it on several envelopes. 

Card from RF Cote - Canada - frontside 

One of the cards received from Antonio Miro. It is a reproduction of one of his paintings. He must have made thousands. He is wellknown in Spain, and exhibits in the major museums there. Still, he keeps active in mail-art when he can 

Saturday mail that came in November 27th

A thick envelope with a bunch of cards from Antonio Miro (Apartat 148, E-03800 Alcoi, PV, Spain) arrived today. Antonio always has sent me his catalogues of the new paintings he has produced over the years. These card will go out into the network….. Also a letter from Michael Lumb. He wondered what a BLOG is, but on the backside of his envelope he wrote that he already visited the IUOMA-blog. He included some of his new artist trading cards. I myself hardly am into these ATC’s because the concept doesn’t appeal to me. Doing mail-art isn’t doing all the others do, for me.

A beautiful card from R.F. Cote arrived today. The structures on the card are made with acrylic paint, printed on the card. Something which I recognize because I have tried these things as well. R.F. surely has an own style. Look for yourself in the BLOG-pictures.

My reply to RF Cote - Canada. 

Card from RF Cote Canada - cardside 

My envelope for VIC (Jaqueline) to send her the IUOMA-card 

The card sent by Jacqueline and signed by me 

VIC's card and my reactions

Jacqueline is relative new in mail-art. She wrote a nice letter and also an IUOMA-card for me to sign. Which I did and her card is on its way. She also mentions the www.nervousness.org site. I came across that site too. Never really felt welcome there since the ones who run it don’t think newcomers to their site are equal to the others. One should first have sent in things to the most important users of nervousness, and only after that one is ‘upgraded’ on their site. This small observation surely would make them mad and they will disagree. But it felt like that. Also the projects done there were in my eyes far away from the traditional mail-art. Open, all welcome, new and innovative projects. On nervousness it seems most have as a hobby “mail-art”, and aren’t concerned with the art-aspect in it. Craft is what I have seen there. A closed community that functions quite well, but isn’t one I am able to function in

an envelope I sent to Michael Leigh (A1) came up at Ed's Blog in this format.....