MAIL ART NEWS

incoming from  Julie Matevish Greetings, dear readers of Mail Art News. This blog post promises to be as cluttered as my desk! Imagine a painting of someone opening mail...is that correspondence art? There's an art to opening mail. I recall a post on IUOMA asking what people use to open their envelopes. I use my Swiss army knife when I can find it. I have four envelopes and two post cards ready to go out. This is almost a comics section:  Ron Bookless & Michael Leigh, May 2023 See more comic cut-ups at the Mail Art Worldwide page on Facebook. There's a new mail art book out there called  Cabaret Voltaire: Fluxus West, San Diego, and Southern California Mail Art . Maya Lopez Muro sent me a little booklet of her artworks over the years. Thanks for that. It's a good idea.  Maya Lopez Muro From  Julie Matevish ,  I really like this black card with strips of paper glued and folded/wrapped around. Very nice effect.  Also from Julie M:  Collaboration with Zack . I glued the J

Sunshinysam  on IUOMA I'm just a one man operation, so I can't cover all the posts made by all the mail artists. I can however make note of the things that grab my attention the most. Occasionally people send me links and factoids. Per nonlocal variable , there exists an archives of the copy-culture publication known as  Photostatic  (1983-1998). Definitely worth a look.  Diana Hale has a perforator. Adam R. has a Wizbang perforator, a gift from Michelangelo Mayo.   Questing for a perforation machine...there are some leads. There's a nice looking, heavy duty one made in India , but attempts to land on a page where one could order the item has resulted in a slew of disorienting incoming emails. Shipping costs could be prohibitive. Then there's word from  Heather Wilkie  in the  Mail Art News group on IUOMA  that a  person on etsy  is selling small scale perforators. The seller offers two or three different sizes, plus a circle-shape perforator. Very interesting! Kind o

John Held, Jr (posted by K. Nikoltsou on IUOMA) 🌎 ✉️ 🌍 ✉️ 🌏 ✉️ 🌎 ✉️ 🌍 ✉️ 🌏 ✉️ Summer days are here in the northern hemisphere, at my specific latitude and longitude, which could mean some seasonal slowing down of mental activity, and thus more minimalist blog posts on my part, but I do aim to keep them going weekly. My incoming mail has reduced to a trickle, which is fine. That gives me some time to get "caught up," a theoretical state of being where one is able to send something to everyone who has sent them something, said to be impossible by the mail art elders.  I'm seeing more perforation and I like it. To be a mail art grandmaster, one doesn't necessarily need a perforation machine, but it does help. I hear whispers that this person has one, that person has one. I ask the intergalactic space lords and space ladies who manage the fortunes of the inhabitants of the universe, "When will I get one?" Their silence can be translated as "You can&#

The famous Flammarion wood engraving (colorized version)  borrowed from the internet and ready to mail out ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ Mail Art Microfiction outgoing, Oct 2021 After prompting ChatGPT for a piece of mail art microfiction, I went in and made some changes for clarity and to keep the story on the desired track. This is for entertainment only and is in no way attacking IUOMA.  The fictional online mail art community known as Mail Union Global was created only for the purposes of this work of fiction. Intelligence agencies on Earth and even on other planets may however be trying to send you remote messages. Haha? -T. Brown 6/7/2023 The Mind of Marina Marina, a gifted mail artist and blogger, sat at her cluttered studio desk, immersed in a world of colors, rubber stamps, postage stamps, and envelopes. Little did she know that her creative passion had caught the attention of intelligence agencies seeking a channel for their covert operations and she was about to