Thursday, November 14, 2013

#45 My mail box runneth over


Quite a variety of materials and techniques are evident in these--always a delight to receive and send.
Add & pass from G. Bondioli; sent on to Amy Irwen/IUOMA

From Phyllis, California: Playing card mini-book
with information about the Golden Gate Bridge
Cover of Banzai, Issue # 19, October, 2013 from Melissa Fletcher, Jackson Tennesee:
A 'zine dedicated to rubber stamping and mail art
From Esther Kamkar, Palo Alto, California: monotype with poem fragment

To Esther Kamkar from CR: mark-making and collage
To Petrolpetal from CR: Collage and stamping

Saturday, November 2, 2013

#44 Mail Art received & sent

I'm one of the lucky recipients of KS Chambers' pop-art soup series. Three postcards have arrived during the past few weeks. And to my surprise, recipes for alligator soup and walrus fin soup actually exist--perfect for a wintry day.





KS Chambers, Anaheim, California, USA
Digital prints

And found in my mail box was a retro memorial to roadside attractions from Connie Jean. 


Connie Jean, Cocoa Beach, Florida
Mixd media collage--note the microwave popcorn box frame

Coffee Love, an add & pass journal, arrived this week. In my stash I found a napkin 'canvas' which I had painted with coffee. I decided to include this little treasure, a memento from Caribou Coffee Cafe in Winter Park, Colorado.   After completing 16 pages, I sent the journal to the artistic  Amy Irwen, Rosemount, MN.


Carmela Rizzuto, Sunnyvale, California
Coffee-painted napkin, complete with paint-by-number instructions