Raw Trash and an Extravaganze from our leader

I am a sucker for a music score.  This envelope makes me want to dust the cobwebs from my acoustic guitar, 40 year old cobwebs! Did you FIND that or was this a cast off of a DKULT kid? 

I have a few Add and pass pieces that are languishing in my ,'to do box'.  Sorry Dan Moeur, soon… but I will deal with this EXTRAVAGANZA ASAP. Have you sent out various pages so they can be reassembled with local DKULT news, are you interested in a trash count, the chickens, mad cow disease?

 I am pleased that you have issued me with my own custom and immigration pass into the heart of DKULT policy.  Unfortunately I can't get an appointment with the DKULT DYE person to transform me into this personage.  I have an appointment with the eye surgeon tomorrow though.  Will I need to continue to wear glasses?

On the back of Diane's note (above) is a hundred dollar scan (not man, sadly). I belive this is the yearbook page of one of our DKult members? Don't we have Leon Olinger on the roll?

Many thanks Diane. Some stuff on its way to you.

Vizma' trashpo apple cure

If ever you feel ineffectual, unglamorous and even a tiny bit of a wall flower, Vizma's apple cure will do the trick! 

Vizma has a way of making trash feel like the stuff of REAL books. I can't quite establish where the leftover bits and the trasformation begin and end.  I feel like I'm reading an Eric Carle book... but this one is top pocket size and much funnier!

Can you spot the pocket with the bespoke stamps sticking out from beneath the apt explanation:  

Art is long, life is short.

 What apple book would be complete without the apple on a a string, eaten by the standing mink? 

Clearly the cure for all insecurity is to eat an apple!

I live next to an apple orchard and although we have plenty of our own apples, I can't help but scrump an apple now and again  as I pass through.  Koalas might not eat apples, but our dog Lyra does. As soon as I pick one she is jumping up to remind me to save her a piece.

I'm sure the bad apple should be wearing pink cowboy boots?

 Oh Doris, you make it look so easy!

As ever, Vizma packs a visual punch with this informative, aestetically pleasing trashpo collage on apple!  Thank you, Vizma.

PS LOVE the inverted envelope!

Tofu is having a recycled beer packaging exhibition in San Francisco!

You will be able to see Tofu's work at CITY BEER
1168 Folsom St
San Francisco
October 8-Nov 3, 2013
The opening will be Thrusday October 10th from 6-9
To contact Tofu go to tofu art.com!

Simon Warren is making a version of the trash quilt!

Simon has sent me A4 card instalments for quite some time now.  These are punctuated by responses (white envelopes with letters inside) to the occasional replies I send.  I mean to respond more often but unlike Simon I need days to reply.

Interpretation of mail art is a curious thing because unless the dialogue goes back and forth and gets refined, the recipient 'owns' the interpretation.  Strange to think that my meaning might be nothing like Simon's meaning and my response may be irrelevant to the initial response. So when I say Simon is making his own take on the TRASH QUILT, I may be barking up the wrong tree entirely. Still.

Simon has a way of inspiring new work from me and no. 106 (top) was the catalyst for a fusepo response (fused plastic trash quilt) that seemed to arrive from somewhere else.

In the end I did not send Simon the original as not ready to part with it, but the version I sent him is differently inspiring (to me). 

Later that day, I visited facebook to upload some work by other mail artists to the IUOMA site and was delighted to see that Simon had inspired another artist /mail artist / poet, Theresa Williams. I read on her facebook page that:

The poem "torch" has just been nominated for BEST OF THE NET.http://districtlit.com/post/39243739047/poems-by-theresa-williamshttp://districtlit.com/post/39243739047/poems-by-theresa-williams

Read it, it is wonderful!

While I was making my piece in response to Simon, I wondered about why certain people help us to find what we want to say.