Ruud Janssen - IUOMA & TAM

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Lots of Aquarel Paint

Last years I have increased the production of drawings and even made a special blog about this:

https://tekeningenruud.blogspot.com/

I work wit Indian Ink and Watercolours. These special Auquarel paints are from White Night. Very bright and special. Using them since 1991 when I discoverd them in St. Petersburg.

Friday, February 27, 2026

With the postal rates going up and postal services dissapearing the Mail-Art network is thinking on larger scale on what to do. People close their P.O. Boxes. Post goes slows and becomes a rare event.

Digital communication isn't the same though. The intimate feeling of a piece of paper is still the precious event for some of us.

For digital communication we have become dependant to the larger social media. Theown websites start to cost too much money too. I already had to close some formal domain names because they kept reaising the prices even a few times a year.

We also get older and the financial aspect of our income is deciding for us what we can still allow us to do. Can we still pay the postage and the ways of communication we seem to need?

Thursday, December 04, 2025

The year 2025 was a strange one. Closed my P.O. Box, and also closed the iuoma.org domain name. The bills went up while I wanted to cut dodn the costs. So that meant some changes it the traditional communication that was possible.

Yes online I have a large presence and others can still easily contact me in a digital way. What will happen in 2026 isn't sure yet. I will turn 67 years old and that means working for money stops and you are forced to deal with getting older and get all kind of freedom for it in return.