Thanks to swap-bot, I tried collaging a few file folder envelopes. The swap asked for one, and I made four. I still have one to send from that batch. So, here are three of them. To Lorena To Alice Rabbit To Elyse Like everything else that I make, they are experiments. It was nice to [...]
Archive for January, 2012
file folder mail art
Posted in Beyond Postcards, File Folder Mail Art, Mail Art Sent, Technique Experimenting on January 31, 2012 | 7 Comments »
a personal pep talk
Posted in Life, Mail Art Received on January 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This is a card I received from Stewart Charlebois. I like the forward thinking look the young girl has. Full of hope and potential for the new year and years to come. Hope and potential are feelings that I have been struggling with this month. As some may know, until last May I was in [...]
jerry’s map
Posted in Art, Inspiration, Process on January 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I just discovered Jerry Gretzinger’s work. I love how his mind works and how the project has grown and changed over time. I also love the use of the altered playing cards to help him choose what direction to go next.
“exploding” box ‘o’ art!
Posted in Beyond Postcards, Mail Art Received on January 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Look at what was in my mail box the other day. Kris Naylor did it again. Last year she gave me little tea bag wrappers taped together to form an envelope sized rectangle, each with a little painting inside. You can see it here. Now I need an explosion of creativity to get me to [...]
cats, cats, cats
Posted in Cats, Mail Art Sent, Technique Experimenting on January 14, 2012 | 6 Comments »
The International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA) is a group that I always go back to. It is an international group of people who like to exchange art through the mail. I like it because I get mail from all over the world and I feel comfortable sending my experiments to other members. There are [...]
a cleansing
Posted in Inspiration on January 8, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The partner of one of my coworkers is Japanese. Every year before the first of the year, they do a major cleaning of the whole house and every CD is dusted, every window washed. Inspired by this idea, I did the same thing on a much smaller scale. I cleaned my workspace. I dusted, reorganized, [...]
welcome 2012
Posted in Life on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors- people who have a hunger to know what is true- feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding [...]
