Give me the roses and I'll bake the bread.

These exquisite paint and ink pieces are two sides of one gift in this mailing. They are haptic, ethereal, just absolute beauties. They are both worthy of a frame… I will place them around my studio for inspiration before putting them in my archive.  Thank you Gerda! I'm sorry it's taken me a while to blog this.

I am a sucker for a handmade envelope  and I notice the femail stamp. I am slow.  I am sorry. 

And then, to cap it all off, a boekie. for Internationl Women's Day. What were you doing on that day?  In the past I have gone to a party (helped serve food) thrown by Suffolk refugees.  I wondered if it were on. Lots of music and women dancing together.Instead I was here, painting and fitting house chores in between. 

 Thank you Gerda.  A wonderful envelope full of beauty, surprises and inspiration!

Tofu's Orange Track of Memory

I have no idea if Tofu was thinking about those orange tracks we used to assemble when we played hot wheels but I was delighted to find that I remembered them when I looked at his beautiful painted postcard!

What I found on the 'google machine' when I in put orange matchbox track 

I discovered in this mailing two truths… Tofu loved matchbox too and he is an Anglophile and I guess I am too. Many thanks Tofu. 

Dada Centenary - Amalgamated Confusion

Keith's mail art is always exacting, funny and original. And I am a sucker for a postage stamp so these beauties are hugely appreciated! Keith definately has an aesthetic so, not anti-art, but that suits me perfectly! Sunflower Tank is a wonderful anachronism and to this mail artist, it has a tombstone feel. Playful and poignantly pointed.

The sentiment on this connundrum is perfect for this recipient, too. I worship the sweetspot where words, musi, the visual become each other and this is the corollary, I think.

I also like amalgamated's light touch.  A non-pacifist rabbit says a lot.

Clemente Padin, Uruguay