Dan Waber, "fall leaves # 11" (May 2006)
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
The Eye and the Flower
Roy Arenella, "The Eye is a Rooted Being" (12 Apr 2006)
A remarkable little rubberstamp collage (with illuminating text). Card # 106C.
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Boat and Grind
Roy Arenella, "Small Boat v$ The Daily Grind" (27 Mar 2006)
With this note: "Maybe I've burdened this small boat w/ more baggage than it can carry--but it feels good as I float it out towards Schenectady..." This is card # 206 plain.
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Notice of the Death of Ian Hamilton Finlay
Roy Arenella, "I.H.F. RIP" (27 Mar 2006)
Card # 83 p/c.
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Color Mischief
Roy Arenealla, "2Triangles" (22 Feb 2006)
Blog title from the reverse of card # 75CX.
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A Collage the Way Only Roy Arenella Does It
Roy Arenella, "How Color Seduces" (21 Mar 2006)
And this is card # 71 CX P/C.
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Trees is the Theme
D Mask, Illustrated Envelope (18 Mar 2006)
D. Mask enclosed a rough-and-ready add-n-pass booklet, made out of a brown paper bag in this envelope. The theme I have to work on is trees.
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Pigsnoutprint in Pink
frips, Pigsnoutprint (16 Mar 2006)
I see this card and say (to myself), Is that a pig's snout? I turn over the card and see little drawing of a pig with wings and this note "For Pigdada." Ah.
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Slightly Damaged in Transit
Roy Arenella, "Every Word was Once a Poem" (7 Mar 2006)
Card number 55 CXC from Roy Arenella.
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Freedom of Expression
RF Cote, "liberte d'expression" (10 Feb 2006)
Another nice photo-collage, this time backed with a notice for a new mailartzine, "Circulaire 132."
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A Diary Note
Roy Arenella, "A Red Letter Day" (13 Feb 2006)
A good day for Roy, I assume, and an interesting little rubberstamp collage, and this is a card from Roy without a number (which he indicates on the card).
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I Don't Get Many Valentine's Day Greetings
Mick Boyle, "Happy Valentine's Day" (10 Feb 2006)
So I'm lucky to get this one.
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A Notice of Discs
Reed Altemus, Centerfold to "Noitca" (2005)
Reed sends me this little chapbook of Rundschreibe, along with a powerful asemic typoglyph.
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Possibly More than Whelmed
Jassy Lupa, Flowers (Jan 2006)
Jassy Lupa sends me these great prints, but I think she might have been overwhelmed at the time, since she wrote "overwhelm" five times as the only message on the other side of the card.
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The Teeth Aitch
Dan Waber, "The H" (23 Jan 2006)
I have to assume that Dan is thinking of bpNichol (H-lover, but only h-appreciator) when he put together this card of aitches over what appear to be teeth. And with a name like HUTH, I can't help but see shadows of my own name in here.
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A Spot of Tea under Both Moons
Mick Boyle, "Tear of the Moon Tea" (Feb 2006)
A charming little image from Mick, and the back of the card is pink and blue with the outline of a rabbit and a snail. Two different worlds on one little card.
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An Eye for Poetry
Roy Arenella, "oppo" (18 Jan 2006)
Strangely, everytime I see this "oppo" of Roy's, I read it as "ollo," which I translate into the Portugues "ohlo," which is the Spanish "oyo," which good also be spelled "ollo," which means "eye" in English. So optical poetry must have somethign to do with the eye.
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A Break from the Commute
Roy Arenella, "Our Daily Commute" (10 Jan 2006)
Roy is retired, but his wife Martine still works, so they commuted to work every day since they moved to Greenwich, until the day Roy made me this card.
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Antboo?
Jim Leftwich, "antboo broadside # 2" (1 Jan 2006)
Okay, I've no idea what "antboo" might mean, but that's part of the name of this second in a series of broadsides by Jim Leftwich.
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A Window of Thought
Dan Waber, "winKnow" (Jan 2006)
First, I see a window, but I hear winnow, and I see a wink and know a know. The K does all this.
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News with a Bang
Guido Vermeulen, "BANG" (2005)
Guido sent me this simple quartet of artist stamps along with "a network art newsbulletin" that seems to be entitled "When we reflect others, we reflect ourselves."
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New Years' Greeting
Scott McDonald, "$100 Million Cash Bonanza" (30 Dec 2005)
Scott sends me a used lotto card and adds this note (besides "Happy New Year" on the opposite side: "When this card was first printed the odds of it getting mailed to you were astronomical." I can believe it.
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See-Through Mail
Renée Wagemans, "ABBA" (Dec 2005?)
This is a weird little card from Renée Wagemans, the centerpiece of which is a panlindromic poem with a palindromic title.
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Threading Our Way
frips, Sinterklaas in Threads (17 Dec 2005)
This sewn card of frips' is different from the others she's sent me because these colorful threads are sewn into the card by hand. frips accidentally put the stamps on the opposite side of the card as the address, but this note to the postal carriers did its magic:
I accidentally put the stumps on the other side.....
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Unctuous Falsifier
Mark Lamoureux, "10, Saturnalia" (Dec 2005)
Mark isn't a mailartist. He's a poet. But this wonderful "Christmas card," in stunning metallic silver with an hilarious surface translation of a bit of Martial poetry, is too good not to treat as mailart.
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The Moon at Night
RF Coté, "lune en prime-time" (6 Dec 2005)
Reg sends me this beautiful photo-collage. All of these collages have a soft cast to them, a gentle surrealism. I'd almost like to take a vacation here.
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Brain Aura
Brain Cell 636 (20 Dec 2005)
Ryosuke Cohen has put together another colorful set of stampings and stickings, including my own "AURA."
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kite tail press # 1
Dan Waber, "Italic Man" (31 Dec 2005)
Dan Waber begins his kite tail press (a "division" of paper kite) with this simple little concrete, italicized for our entertainment.
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Have Yourself a Very Punny Xmas
Dan Waber, "$mas" (Dec 2005)
The most accurate and concise description of moderday Christmas.
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Digital Flora
fat red ant, "weeds in eden" (Nov 2005)
fat red ant sends me a stylish little picture covered with zeros and ones and exhibiting just three small leaves. These three represent the weeds in Eden. I think this is the only black and white piece fat red ant has ever sent me.
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Another Cutup
Ficus strangulensis, "old cutup 01" (16 Nov 2005)
Fike sends me another slew of cutups, colorful and full of words, and he thanks me for a memento of the multi-voic reading I was involved with last year.
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A Memory of a "Voice-icle Multiplying"
Steve Dalachinsky, "Spontaneous Crossword Pome" (29 Oct 2005)
After Steve, eleven other people, and I took part in a multi-voice reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, Steve sent me this little "crossword pome" atop a photograph of miners in the north of England in 1936.
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Moving Notice
Dan Waber, "m@%!#g" (29 Nov 2005)
This little moving notice from Dan came to me sealed in a plastic bag, and I didn't want to ruin its form as presented to me, so I've left it in the back. The card, unfortunately, was torn into three unequal pieces by the postal service's machinery and was taped back together by postal service employees before being inserted into this baggie.
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The Five-Step Trip to Joy
Wayne Alan Brenner, "Five Simple Steps to Greater Joy in This World of Sorrow" (2001)
This little booklet comes to me from the Department of Gravitational Assurance (which I assume is Brenner himself) in Austin, Texas.
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The 101st Use of a Bad Photograph
Irving Weiss, "in the eye of the body's hurricane" (28 Nov 2005)
Mailart is about recycling, and Irving Weiss uses this photograph to send me a note of thanks for a mailing.
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Adding and Passing
Add&Pass Xerolage via Gardenor (Nov 2005)
Gardenor sends me this xerographic add-and-pass along with a few other pieces of a mailart nature.
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A Dozen Views of Boyleston, Pennsylvania
Mick Boyle, Xerographic Versions of Mick Boyle (21 Nov 2005)
Headshots of Mick Boyle, showing his many moods, all quiet and somber in picture. Much different in person and print.
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Writing with Coffee Stains
Dan Waber, "A Minimalist Response to Vexation (for Roy Arenella)" (19 Nov 2005)
Dan Waber's imagination leads him to write "OH!" with rings of dried coffee.
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The Blue Potatoes of the Andes
Dan Waber, "Potatoh" (Nov 2005)
A blue potato print, or remisspelling "potato."
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The Fissures between Meant and Meaning
Dan Waber, "fisSing" (Nov 2005)
The singing fish?
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The Paneled Landscape
Billy Mavreas, "-L-A-C-" (2005)
The talented Billy Mavreas entertains us with a remarkable piece of "comic" art: a wordless (note that the characters "speak" sets of wavy lines") comic, hinting at panels, but with each each section of the comic overlapping each other.
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Posting Two Extra Bills
RF Coté, Posted Bills (Two by Geof Huth) (6 Nov 2005)
Reg has taken a photograph of his of a column decorated with colorful posters and posted reproductions of two of my glyphs on that column.
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