Mail Art News #30: The Mail Art Must Flow
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| outgoing promotional material, arrived in Italy, 5/2023 |
In Dune, it was "The spice must flow." Here at Mail Art News, one could say: "The Mail Art Must Flow." At any rate, Cristiano Pallara informs me via Instagram message that my mail has arrived in Italy.
Venturing into the blogosphere, you can see a nice assortment of mail art blogs. I know there must be more out there, but only so many show up with the Google search, so if you have a blog or know of a blog dedicated to mail art, send it my way. I can add it to the blogroll.
I'm a fan of Joey Patrickt's work. Here's a sample of his mail art work and then a screenshot of the collages on his blog. Does he mail the collages out? If so, they'd be mail art!
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Here's two from Monster A Go-Go's blog, The World of Monster A Go-Go.
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Speaking of monsters, and heading over to IUOMA,
Maxima Strange has received a "monster of unknown origin from Seattle" and Mail Art News is on the case (wink, wink).
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Brain Cells 1178 and 1179 are out there.
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| Braincell 1178, documented by William M. |
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| Braincell 1179, documented by Pam Chatfield |
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Via IUOMA email:
Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles has two ongoing mail calls:
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William Mellott's The Rubber Postcard #27 is in the mail. Below is a sample, but you can see the whole set of cards at the link above. ^ ^ ^
Submissions are open for issue 28.
Guidelines:
Postcard size work: 4x6 inches (10.16 x 15.24 centimeters)
Rubber stamp / eraser / found stamp work only. A small amount of drawing or coloring in is ok but not excessively so. No collage please(there are plenty of other zines for that kind of work). 13 multiples or individual pieces signed and numbered. Only original hand stamped work please(no photocopies). There is no theme.
Deadline: Ongoing (issues will be sent out as enough work arrives to be collated).
Address is on William M's IUOMA profile.
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| William Mellott's The Rubber Postcard #27 |
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| Greg Diaz |
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| Rosilda Sa |
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| William Mellott |
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Jean-Philippe Gilliot shares incoming art from Rosemarie Drews. This one is calling out for someone to write an analysis of possible meanings...or a micro science fiction story. I will have to revisit this one later. The collages of Joey Patrickt are also calling to me...may need to start writing fiction blogposts based on some of the collages I see out there in the Mail Art Dimension.
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Nonlocal Variable has been posting archival art:
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| from 1995 by Tim Mancusi |
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And I'll close with this image from Melissa Wand, at least that's what I saved the file name as ("melissa wand"). I think I saw it on IUOMA. The file date is March 9, 2023, which is pre-Mail Art News, but I often do save interesting images from the internet.
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| Melissa Wand |
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That's all for now, but there's always more mail art happening out there.
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