Important the trees arrived! Richard sent mail art greetings!

Fabulous to finally open this beautiful linotype on vegetal paper from Richard Baudet! The linocut hasn't scanned so well in that the trees are raised and seem to be marching out of the page in the real version. I love their texture and the 'snow' on the envelope is also raised. I feel as if I arrived in a winter wonderland.  Sadly just wind and rain here today, though.  

Every day I plan to knuckle down and finish some of the mail art projects I began and had to abandon because life got in the way, but if you could see my studio right now you might just understand… Rest assured that I have a little list of all the people who sent me lovely things and I will reply soon.

Many thanks Richard!

James Chester Speaks Batman

I love the way James tells us that language and images are interconnected, both asemics depending on your decoding skills. Many thanks!

Issue 56 Subscription Opus (Maze Music)- Jude Weirmer

Delighted to receive this beautiful and fascinating piece from Judith Weirmeir.  Unfolded, it measures 19 x 13 and is printed onto glossy card. It arrived folded (inside one of those 'we're sorry your mail has been damaged' bags.  Luckily, it hasn't been damaged!) 

Above is one side of the Judith's mail art.  It is silkscreened  (I think) and has that wonderful haptic feel of raised ink.Great colours, expressive text and variety!

Below is an intricate digital? drawing that features music, language, gestures and flowcharts. It is funny, whimsical and in places political! FABULOUS! You will need to spend some time with this piece to get even part of it.  Zoom in and enjoy!

I love the floppy but sturdy quality of this book and the way it can be read in many ways! I'm feeling lucky! Many thanks Judith!

Cheryl Penn's Elegy to the Tree

Cheryl's beautiful book arrived yesterday.  Although nothing beats handling something so lovely, I thought you might like to see it for yourself!

It took me a chunk of the day to download it and order it into a PDF. Please enjoy Cheryl's book by clicking on this link to download a PDF.  I reduced the size of this this morning, so you can have easy access now! ENJOY.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3g5q7Qjx55QcVlieTZud0Jtd2M/edit

You can learn more about this amazing book by visiting Cheryl's 
Website http://cherylpenn.com/wpb/