#80 October-December 2018 Mail Art

Participating in mail art activities continues to excite my creative spirit. After a long hiatus I've re-started creating mail art.  The series, The Philosophy of Tea, combines recycled tea bags, papers painted with tea, tea tags, and other ephemera. Each 'page' of the collage lifts up to reveal additional elements. Each one in the series is unique.

I've also started answering Calls for Entries. See my drawing for Redwork Post here  https://redworkpost.tumblr.com --scroll down to November 14, 2018 entries. The drawing celebrates my husbands delicious home-grown tomatoes.  Diana Hale converts the drawings into redwork embroidery. The squares will be used to create a 'mail art' quilt.

A call, Landscape 2019, popped up on IUOMA recently and I could not resist. This postcard, Dreaming the Land, has been waiting a long time for the right venue.

By CR for ArtGallery MCL, Turin, Italia.  Entry for Landscape 2019 
Media:  Collage using artist-painted and stamped papers.
Documented: https://artgallery-mcl.jimdosite.com/exhibition/

By CR for Nancy Bell Scott, Maine. Philosophy of Tea Series #4
Media: decorated papers, tea tag, ephemera, stamping.
Hidden Text: "chroma--a color of the weather, a color of the mind." (unknown poet) 

By CR for Patricia at Carytownteas.com
Entry for Tea Time Mail Art. Philosophy of Tea Series #1.
Media: tea bag papers, tea tags, ephemera. 

By CR for Esther K. Philosophy of Tea Series #2
Media: decorated papers, tea tags, ephemera, stamping.
Hidden Text: 'Go out and paint the stars.'

By CR for Norma Soulet, Florida. Tea Time Series #3
Media: decorated papers, tea tag, ephemera, stamping.
Hidden Text: 'To find a beautiful thing, look with an open mind, an open heart.' (Anon.)

By CR for Keith Chambers aka Amalgamated Confusion:
Tea Time Series #5 --Media: decorated papers, tea tag, ephemera, stamping.
Papers lift up to reveal hidden text: 'leaving a mark on a map of smoke'