Heavenly wonders of Herman Kamphuis

It's a trip around the world of antiquities, history, news from times gone by from Herman this time.  I read the visuals and see social commentary through the stories, the juxtaposition and all together I delight in the beaut and meaning. I see the wonders through Herman's eyes. 

Profiles. I love them! One has to wonder if this beauty's 'Daemon' is a bird...

If you don't know Arvo Part, you can listen here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z76I0gwKmu0 
My studio radio station (BBC 3) plays his music fairly regularly and when they do I have to stop and listen.  How did Herman know? Look at the way Herman uses paper here!  It helps me to see this woman as a feline creature, a beauty.

And here, the cut paper feels like a kaleidoscope, taking me back in time. One has to think about the stories this young man knows now… did he serve in the war and whose grand father is he now?

Herman tells me:  'it's all about memory and told stories…' 

 As ever, I love the gorgeous expressive faces from Herman… I can feel some new stamps coming on!

This envelope feels a bit like a bandage, stitched together to hold Herman's time capsule… We find the contents of Voyageur, an American Flag, some people from the past and objects we recognise from years gone by.  The stamps are an observatory, an airplane - technological advances of our lifetime.

To learn more about the beautiful Mistinguette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistinguett

Thank you, Herman, and sorry it's taken me a while to pen your letter.  It was certainly worth the wait, though!

That Awful Greasy Dishwasher...

Just before the ogre savaged the beautiful, if cold, lounging robot, the fairy reminded the pair that even though it was about to be the end of the affair, they were required to FIND THE SILVER LINING. So, when the police officers arrived and found the bodies, they also found the written note with the good news: 'Then we won't have that awful greasy dishwasher.' Phew, it was almost worth it. 

Thank you David you have encouraged me to write three silver linings a week. I'm sure I'll feel better soon.

Dein Kampf - Your Fight

Dein Kampf

Always wonderful to receive mail from a new correspondent.  Jan Theuninck from Belgium sent me this beautiful printed postcard.  I am in fighting mode.  Even when cornered and injured, I suspect I would continue to fight for the things that matter: honesty, integrity and equality, to begin with!

You can see more of Jan's work here:

http://theuninck.blogspot.com

Celebrate the end of daylight savings with your copy of Coffee Clutch!

The Coffee Clutch has it's finger on the pulse and is highly relevant to all things mail art, obviously. Here I am in England, just a few hundred miles from York, and who knew there was Hannah Hoch birthday box? It took Cascadia artpost to send me my November edition and some BEAUTIFUL PINK artistamps featuring Hannah Hoch for me to discover my own 'local' news.

And what's the Toast for Post? Is it whole wheat, white or rye or is it in a glass? I love the horoscopes, but I'm a capricorn and not sure what my motif means. 

Also, can I send my news in?  The only thing I can think of at the moment is the pumpkin glut in mid suffolk.

Another brilliant mailing! 

Sticker Dude's road trip to see Cascadia!

collaboration between Cascadia Artpost and Sticker Dude!

Cascadia Artpost's process

Read this… it explains the trip Sticker Dude took to visit Jack Latteman to see Cascadia!

Sticker dude lives in NYC. Jack lives in Washington.  Sticker dude went to the other side of America to see the miniature world of Cascadia with his own eyes.  I loved reading Joel's description of what he found!  Like Joel, I have see the booklets and looked intently at the buildings and figures but Joel helped me to appreciate Cascadia more to see it more fully by hearing about it through Joel. Amazing.

Sticker Dude's envelope!

The key to unlocking this envelope, for me, is 'exploring civilization' which appropriately is in the postmark. All these flawed characters with lots of power and politics and some others who have left their mark on our culture in creative ways.  They have all left their mark historically and culturally and not all in good ways!

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I read somewhere about how there isn't a political movement within the arts.  Sticker Dude proves that wrong. We need you! 

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The Serial Asemicst Makes his Mark!

Although I know the beautiful marks are asemics I concentrate on the yellow… the colour and the way it is haptic even though it is a gloss print makes me want to climb into the yellow.  The marks, the asemics, make me a little uncomfortable.  I can't help 'reading' them as a math(s) equation.  They make me jittery and I begin to feel inadequate. But then again the way the line isn't ruled and the thrust of the characters is somehow friendly.  If it were math(s) I suspect the serial asemicst would whisper the result in my ear. A Lovely mailing!

Not sure who you are but will try to find out! Thank you.