Doodling in colour: a new kind of doodle therapy from Meeah Williams

Receiving Meeah's envelope was a doodle therapists dream! Meeah's characters appear, converse and asks questions that help us to see what this therapy is all about. It is absolutely brilliant and will definitely shame me into visiting IUOMA to post it on the envelope page. (Shame, because I have let myself slack off a bit with double and triple posting of images…) The colour is intense, vibrant and perfect!

Zoom in, look closely.  Meeah is not just a doodler, an asemic artist, a bird lover, she is also a writer and her words are carefully chosen, or perhaps they are inately brilliant. 

I love the bilingual element in Meeah's work. It makes me miss NY.  There is that cacophony of everything sitting alongside each otherjust being that I miss here.

Again, zoom in.  Meeah is writing to me but in a wonderful non-linear way. weave along with Meeah to see what she thinks about doodling!

These classic pieces have no arrows. I turned them round and round trying to read them and it wasn't until they were up on the screen that it was obvious that I had got it wrong and they should be some other direction, obviously! I love the marks, the tempo the way space shifts to say such different things. 

And finally, she doodled back.  I have a backlog of doodles to 'treat' but it's gonna be fun and some of you will get them before too long! Thank you. thank you Meeah! I am ecstatic that you played along with DKult doodle therapy.  

Meeah has a great blog: http://walkingeyeball.blogspot.co.uk

'When One is a Sad One' and more, from Meeah Williams, Brooklyn

The second envelope I received from Meeah on Cranberry Island  … (it's difficult to see the postmark, so couldn't tell which - this or Berry Maritime - was sent first)... is another beauty! Her work is a tapestry of colour, asemics, characters. stories and trashpo.  

This is a long hanging piece of 3 ATC sized cards, perhaps a comic strip of ATCs, although the story is definately tragicomic! If I were feeling generous I would send it on to Carina, as I am sure she would appreciate this one as much as I do!

I'm not sure, and I'm not sure again.  The first unsure is because I can't decide if I should read into mail art and the second is because my thoughts and ideas are not rooted in knowing, but in a sense.  I sense an anti-war poem.  Whatever Meeah intended, I hold this book (folded 4 x 6) and feel grave intention and beauty.

Thank you Meeah!  I am so shamelessly not making much mail art at all at the moment, but one day, before too long, I will reply.

Mama Mia! Meeah sends a full course of beautiful mail art

The following images are the pages of Meeah's books IN some sort of ORDER so that you can read her beautiful VISPO.  Although they stand on their own, I have an overwhelming desire to use them …  but I always have this problem with mail art people send me, I feel I can't change it - unless I'm instructed, so keep it in files to revisit. 

When I was a child I was given a 'blank' book that had some small woodcuts on each page.  I have hung onto the book, never bearing to use it as it was intended, to write my childish poetry NEATLY inside.  

Meeah's envelope heralds the lavish textural trashpo journey she takes me on.

Her books vary in length, from a folded page (so 4 pages) to 2 folded pages, (8).  All are hand stitched in some way.

 Here 'nakedness' and 'thou shalt not uncover' are linked by a stitch.

Meeah's note feels like a piece of mail art winging its way to me over the choppy Atlantic.

This next book is also made from religious pages, but the date affixed to the front transforms it to a day book, a journal, something personal.  I love the dance of strokes on this cover.

 I have cropped the words rather badly here.  On the lamb page it should say, Because, for I am holy," 6. therefore it is also contained in '

 On the pigeon page:' things which are needed for the iniquity.  the tongue is so set.'

 You can probably guess which pages are facing.  Love this unfinished noughts and crosses.

I wonder how Meeah works?  These abstract still lives suggest a change of pace and are beautiful in juxtaposition, especially to the dance on the front and back.

 Furby and conversation with bubbles are stand-alone pieces!

Meeah's final book is made thicker paper.  It is very haptic. Not only does she play with texture.  her use of shape, colour and line make this a very energetic and satisfying read!

And I nearly forgot this one… a sewn card!

Thanks Meeah for a fulsome meal of mail art!