Friday, March 8, 2024

Dragons! Dragons! Dragons!



My Year of the Dragon mail art piece has been going around the world. And I have been receiving mail art celebrating the Lunar New Year as well.
  1. Fleur Helsingor has incorporated an Oakland mural into her piece.
  2. Sabela Baña sent a very happy looking dragon card.
  3. Gina Visione created a very regal looking dragon.
  4. Jennie Hinchcliff did a commemorative artist stamp sheet.
  5. R.F. Côté’s latest issue of Circulaire 132 features the set of dragons I mailed off to Québec.   
  6. Ryosuke Cohen newest Brain Cell has my dragon in the mix as well.
I anticipate a few more dragons will be arriving in my P.O. box soon. 

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Happy Year of the Dragon

 

As soon as I got my Lunar New Year’s stamps from the USPS I started carving rubber stamps for a new series of Dragon Mail Art.

Monday, February 5, 2024

Читаю заборонені книги — I Read Banned Books

A sheet of artist stamps on the way to Ukraine for an artist call for an upcoming exhibit.


 

Monday, January 22, 2024

Blue Heron Lake


To celebrate the renaming of Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake to Blue Heron Lake I created an artist stamp for this month’s meeting of the San Francisco Correspondence Coop.







Wednesday, January 10, 2024

What to do with Add-n-Passes? Make a Zine!


There was a time when I liked add-n-passes as part of receiving and sending mail art.   The idea is that you add something to a piece of mail art and then send it on and so forth.  Eventually it returns to the original sender.   I even started a few myself.   In 2012 I launched an add-n-pass based on geological layers that got a great response.  I have always found the better ones have some sort of theme.
But like many mail artists, I have gone off the add-n-pass. In my opinion, scrawling “add-n-pass” on a piece of paper and mailing it to me, is far from the idea of mail art.  It all reminds me of those cursed chain letters when I was a kid.
I still like doing truly collaborative pieces with other mail artists, but the add-n-pass is usually annoying.  On a rare occasion when I receive one that is all but finished, I will complete it and return to the original sender.  Nowadays I scavenge the good bits for one of mail art, artist scrapbooks (see image below ).
The new year began with a brilliant solution to the add-n-pass problem.   I received this little zine from Josh Ronsen made from add-n-pass scraps and I LOVE it.   Josh has come up with a great way to start my mail art year.   



Thursday, December 14, 2023

Yosemite Falls


 Yosemite Falls inspired my latest hand-carved rubber stamps for a new mail art series to celebrate the holidays.   

Friday, November 10, 2023

Welcomed Home by Mail Art


After a few weeks in the tropics, I was welcomed by all sorts of mail art treats in my post office box.  This is a list of the artists shown here: 
  1. Lubomyr Tymkiv - Ukraine
  2. MiM – Virginia
  3. Sabela Baña – Spain 
  4. Wabi Sabi Sews – California 
  5. The Sticker Dude – New York 
  6. Sally Wassink – California 
  7. Jennie Hinchcliff – California
  8. Jon Foster – North Carolina 
  9. Debra Mulnick – Idaho
  10. Gregg Biggs – Museum of Unclaimed Ephemera – California