I really love the idea of reunions but I never seem to make it to them. Never. I've got a Peace Corps Kenya reunion coming up and I really wish I could be in Seattle in August but I'm in Maine in July and it is impossible.  Suffolk is not that far from London so I have no excuse not to travel down to make mail art with the UK folks + a Greek and other waifs and strays who turn up, but this time no one told me that they were meeting, so it would've been really difficult to find them.

Why didn't I see that stamp?  Must have come out when they were renovating the post office… and their goal is to use one of those printed stickers instead of stamps, anyway. Harrumph.

Many thanks Katerina, Stripygoose and Positively Postal.  I promise to try to come next time. 

a Baggie Boekie from Katerina Nikoltsou

 I've always wanted to make one of these but never done it and Katerina has chosen the perfect bag to make the baggie book with!

below are the contents that Kat slipped into the open pockets of the book! 

This boekie made me smile, feel festive and will make me be on the lookout for other perfect bags so I can make one too!  Many thanks!

Mail art moolah, Mehrl doodles, newts, postmarks and more

Mehrl sent me this to doodle on in response to a DKult doodle therapy boekie.

I love a stuffed envelope and I love silly stuff.  I mean silly in the most positive possible way. C Mehrl's playful use of words and her system for gathering symbols make me want to get up tomorrow and devote an hour to playing in a similar way. C Mehrl's money is so money-like and yet it isn't preachy in the usual way, instead it licenses me to see myself as an artist, whoever I am. Great photo and dialect, postmarks and stamps too!  Thank you!

From Chest of my Mother - 14, Meral Ağar

Meral's collaged card features embroidered flowers cut from fabric adhered to a painted card.  She has used a textured card that suggests embroidery! I have no idea of the circumstances of this piece but it reminds me of when I cut up my father's shirts to sew a quilt and the partially completed quilt sits in my loft. I love the idea of Meral sending pieces of her family history far and wide.

Nichola Orlick's Breathe in and Out

 Nichola's poetry book is no bigger than an inch and needed to be inflated in order to be read. What a divine, delicate piece of vispo that required my performance to exist. WOW!

The Part is Censored - Mars Tokyo

What you can't see on the scan of this playful collage and stamped card from Mars Tokyo is that the censored hand is day glow orange in real life. That little touch tips this card into the surreal. Mars Tokyo has created a theatre with curtains of pattern and stamps, a theatre of the absurd! visit her website and look at her amazing teeny tiny theatres! http://teenytheaters.com huge thanks!

Marie Wintzer must think I'm a spy!

I continue to get these cryptic postcards from Marie Wintzer. I wonder where the words come from.  Marie's so smart I think they might be references to people I should know.  Or are they cut ups?  Or are they dreams, systematically transposed onto  RADIOGRAMS? As everything Mary does, these create pictures for me.  Sci Fi worlds where something has gone terribly wrong.

Apologies for posting these quite a long while after receiving them… It's great to be jogged by this imagist poet!