Honk if you visted Dada Triumph Motors!

 While the rest of us were rushing around buying holiday gifts, baubles and chocolate, Cascadia Artpost  had his opening of Dada Triumph Motors a 'near future representation of a small city in Cascadia at 1:87', inpired by Wof Vostell. As I look at that mug shop of Trump on the wall, I wonder whether the poster on the table in the situation room (described yesterday) was purloined from the walls of DTM. 

Also delighted to have additional promo material. I wish I lived near Cascadia so I could see the The Fender Roads Totem in the flesh, or the plastic or whatever Cascadia uses as a building material.

 And finally, one more car-based communication arrived  (in November) from Cascadia. In typical Cascadia jocular tradition, he merges the joy of driving with some more austere messages. Zoom in and see what you think! 

As ever, great stamps and great messages. New year, new hope, Brave New world...

2019, a glamour mail art makeover from the Postal Voyageur

Want to make a middle-aged mail artist happy? Herman knew that all he needed to do was to collage some glamour girls and attach my name to them! These are exquisite and they remind me of my radio show days … Jean Harlow in Reckless opened my show: 'I'm gonna go places and look life in the face!… because I'm reckless."  

Meanwhile people keep offering me their seat on the bus, so I am under no delusions but wow! This beautiful envelope was made on the page of a map.  I LOVE it.

For the past six months I have been an abysmal mail artist and still I have had some wonderful mail art drop through my letter box, although understandedly it is petering out.  Not long ago I caught up entering the mail art I'd received into my postal ledger. This arrived from Herman just before the very busy period of family visits and general holiday activity began. I still have/had a small stack of mail art to blog and I actually made some mail art but only managed to post one piece… I did send 80 or so holiday (hand-written) letters to friends around the world but my mail art community has been largely ignored and when I think about it I feel terrible. I haven't made some impossible mail art resolution but I am hoping I can make more mail art in 2019. I promised to send something to Herman between Christmas and New Year and haven't done that yet, but of course I will soon. I am very, very grateful to receive this beautiful mailing from Herman! And he has jumped to the head of my blogging queue.

Today when in London visiting a remarkable exhibit at the British Museum about 

Ashurbanipal in Assyria, I had some ideas about mail art I might want to make. There was a postal stamp (They stamped the clay tablets) in 600BC!

Another envelope, like russian dolls, stuffed with treasure.  I get the sense that Herman appreciates the complexity of women, down to their tiaras and white rabbit teeth.

I've had a wonderful holiday but all you women artists will empathise when I say no matter how wonderful family visits are, there is a certain amount of longing that accompanies this time.  Herman's images capture the sentiment of longing although I suspect these women are longing for company and not like me… longing to get back to my studio and maybe even to make some mail art!

 This is a folded book full of characters and pathos. Something is brewing here and it's up to me to find a way to use it.  Great stuff and wonderful drawing!

As ever, I am enormously thankful for Herman's beautiful work and his persistence as a correspondent. I hope those of you who I owe mail art know that if I could I would send and that I hope to send again soon. I continue to archive the mail art I receive and know who has sent, who I should mail to and suspect one day I will shift my priorities again and focus on my mail art community.

Paying tribute to Dystrumpian Chassis

 It seems à propos to shine a light on Cascadia Artpost's Dada Trumph Motors (diorama) around the time when General Motors has announced the cutting of some of its plants in North America. 

One has to wonder what the impact of the DT poster has on peeps...

 Wonderful to see the peeps discussing the Fender Roads Totem.   I'd venture that Bloody Red Accident Collage could be more effective on road rage than those classes people who speed have to take.

 Beware of wire taps. Rudy explains that he needs to get info to feed back to the leader. Honesty will not be tolerated.

 Gold bricking.  Remember DTM and the leader have impeccable taste.

And finally, in the midst of the the hollow world of DTM, humanity  prevails.

 I am in awe.  Cascadia paints within his diorama, showing us all how dystopian life could be.

Vote

I did and even though I felt like the world was in freefall and had to go to bed before the results began rolling in, it worked out in lots of places. Thanks for commemorating this insane election year so beautifully! We need some election reform badges now.

Crociata: mail art crusade

There's always a risk when you use Google translate to understand your mail art. This figure is on a crusade of joy and what's more joyous than a postbox full of mail art, unless you are hopelessly behind in sending and blogging! The back of this beauty is  a poly pocket sheet. So not only is this collaged vispo, it is also trashpo.

 Is this a page of Cheryl's book? Mailart makes the world a town? And it's another map woman.

 Calligraphy anchors this trashpo collage 

Thank you, Bruno, it's a beautiful mailing!

eye spy castles and oeils

I find language you can't read, words that may mean something but stand as graphics on a page alluring. 

Mikel straddles the world of asemics and visual poetry and I am impressed. I am tempted to read the paler yellow sheet and can pick out some words and then wonder if this pattern is meaningful or if the meaning is in the spaces between the words, in the sounds they make. I try to read the words aloud. I can't say them at all. The eye helps and the castle stamp makes me see castles.

It's beautiful stuff. Thank you Mikel