E coles sends first official MonoSemiKKodachrome entry!

Delighted to get this first entry from E coles! It's the first because it was the first I picked up out of the mail box… I have another few which I WILL blog  later! I am in that awkward situation (again) where I have multiple blogs and never enough time so, just to clarify, I will be posting all the entries I receive on the blogspot for this mail art call: http://monosemikodachrome.blogspot.co.uk  I won't have time to write blogs about each and every entry if I get a reasonable number but I will blog them here at the postal ledger when I have time.  If you want to see them all, you'll need to join that blog!

This entry is a great kick-off piece with the stillness of this black and white collage juxtaposed with a flash of colourful, joyous tartan on the envelope!  I hear the music!  Thank you E coles.

What's black and white and re(a)d all over?

A Jon Foster tape transfer, of course! So much that speaks to me in this mailing.  The zebra's stripes, the red LIFE , words 'plastic, grease, reproduction' and all those pieces of words, peeling off a wall somewhere. 

So when I looked at the other side first I thought about Jon and teaching English and that word 'Absalom' leapt out at me - a girl reading Faulkner in a freshman seminar, and then I realised we were talking religion. I am oblivious.  Once there was a girl who was given a copy of Exodus which she read while recuperating in an East African town that she finished and left in the room, not thinking that it might cause insult…

Nothing insulting here, just another wonderful Jon Foster tape transfer!  Lucky me!

What do your arms do?

As I look at this on the screen I wonder if this  might be my first entry for Monochrome, Semitone, Kodachrome? The juxtaposition of black and white and colour and the shape of the mailing speaks of at least two of the prompts in the title.

I wonder where the dark figure is diving too and what sort of music he hears. Meanwhile, the joy of the swimming figure, bobbing up for air, arms in a heart, conjures up different music altogether.  Many thanks! As you can see, the stamps weren't franked, so I have no clues about where this mail artist comes from.

Bubbles from Marie Wintzer

Inside my wonderful Legends mailing from Marie Wintzer was this poem and image.  I wanted to see the homage film (again) before posting it. I wanted to think about it longer.

I can't remember where I saw My Beautiful Launderette the first time.  It was in that period somewhere between New York, Kenya, Oxford or Rome.  In each place I was amidst and aware of cultures coming together and being part of that, but also of intolerance beyond my own life. I've carried the film title around in my head, forgetting the detail but remembering it as significant. Seeing it again was a gift. Watching things in a different niche of time makes things look diffferent.  Patrick says it is 'of its time.' I forget how different attitudes were, even in my lifetime… even in Britain.

I love the way Marie manages to capture the scenes in so few words.  She takes me on the journey with words that conjure up the era. I'm there, wanting things to go differently and eventually it's all so sad…

Love the image too!

You can watch a clip of the film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iirxLSp-yB4

and visit Marie's new website here:
http://thebookwormslunch.com

Fake Educardo Cardoso (Diane Keys)

A perfect forgery! IUOFA

Greetings from Lancillotto Bellini

Great original, recycling mail art from Lancillotto Bellini !

Enl 2 Rott - Germany

What a beautiful aesthetic piece  I wish I knew who to thank.  If you know, please let me know…
It's haptic, asemic (because I can't read the letters or words, even though they are letters and words, I think), curious, full of time.
This is sort of mail art that makes me want to write, to tell a story, to time travel.