arriving mail art from Luis Filipe Gomes (Portugal)

arriving mail art from Luis Filipe Gomes (Portugal) - this is infact an outstanding sending, it came as registred letter, but already opened, I hope nothing is missing. Inside a graphic work and a wonderful artistbook full of creativity, lovely sketches, drawings, collages, historical wisdom about Portugal and his culture, statements and influences of Luis. And lots about Bismarck too, which you can see on my other blog. The booklet has about 200 pages !!! each of them an artwork on its own. I can not post all of them, you have to see the booklet in your own hand and it will simply kick you out. Thank you for this very special and flabbergasting mail art.

arriving mail art from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany)

arriving mail art from Ahlrich van Ohlen (Germany) - a modified postcard which Ahlrich sent during his holiday trip, he has a rubberstamp for this case. Thank you.

arriving mail art documentation from Ed Varney (Canada)

arriving mail art documentation from Ed Varney (Canada) - a little booklet about his mail art call on the topic Olympix, inside as well a sheet of artistamps. Thank you.

arriving mail art documentation from Kiera Pannell (Canada)

arriving mail art documentation from Kiera Pannell (Canada) - a participants list of her mail art call about language and culture and an artcard with mushrooms. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Eberhard Janke (Germany)

arriving mail art from Eberhard Janke (Germany) - Eberhard has sent a colourful portrait and a modified copy of a postcard he got from Norbert, asking for artistamps. Thank you.

arriving mail art from D. C. Spaulding (USA)

arriving mail art from D. C. Spaulding (USA) - his latest artistamp sheet. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Marco Ambrosi (Italy)

arriving mail art from Marco Ambrosi (Italy) - he refers to the mail art catalogue I sent to him. Thank you.
see his blog: http://ambrosigraphics.blogspot.com/

... an outgoing object ...

envelope from Achim Heidemann in a modified way, perforated, in wet soil with secretly seats inside

arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

arriving mail art from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - Heinz has sent me in a postal experiment some artwork, the one for Bismarck you will find in my other blog, besides there are three nice printing models made out of styropor. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Achim Heidemann (Germany)

arriving mail art from Achim Heidemann (Germany) - Achims sent a reaction to the last envelope I sent to him, inside he put a newspaper article about his latest exhibition. Thank you.

arrving mail art from Umberto Bass (Italy)

arrving mail art from Umberto Bass (Italy) - a modified artcard from Umberto. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany)

arriving mail art from Peter Backes (Germany) - Peter made me an offer with this shot-through envelope asking for a deal exchanging vases. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Serse Luigetti (Italy)

arriving mail art from Serse Luigetti (Italy) - Serse refers to the mail art catalogue I sent to him and has sent me some paper stuff, add&pass sheets and postcards. Thank you.

arriving hokus p/jokus card from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany)

arriving hokus pokus card from Heinz W. Lotz (Germany) - an original hokus p/jokus card with a penny on it. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Norbert Koczorski (Germany)

arriving mail art from Norbert Koczorski (Germany) - it seems he wants to have the trash or treasure glass bowl (see below) to pass it on to a friend. He obviously missunderstood my post. It is not a mail art experiment. Thanks.

arriving mail art from Sharon Zimmer (USA)

arriving mail art from Sharon Zimmer (USA) - Sharon asking boring questions! Does she really wants to have an answer on these? Thank you.

arriving mail art from R. F. Côté (Canada)

arriving mail art from R. F. Côté (Canada) - Rejean has sent me 10 artworks for the Artomat in the mail art exhibition about Otto von Bismarck, for more info see this link: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/search/label/artomat
Thank you.
see his blog: http://circulaire132.blogspot.com

arriving mail art from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg)

arriving mail art from Fraenz Frisch (Luxembourg) - Fraenz has sent me one of his mail art catalogue from 2005, a hand drawn postcard and his latest cARTed card to let the community know that he is collecting these kind of artcards, so sent him all your cARTed cards. Thank you.
see his page http://www.mailart.lu/

... trash or treasure ...

this item I found on the 11th of June 2011, I will never forget any more, at a little village fleemarket near the austrian border, in Hammerau, found in between of nasty household rubbish, up to me it is definitely flabbergasting treasure because it is an original vase from the well-known glass designers brother Daum in Nancy (France) from about 1910, enameled cameo glass, partly acid etched and iridecent - I bought it totally covered with dirt and and dust powder inside from past decades.
I can sent it as mail art too, don't you think so? it is definitely art.

... handicapped cat ...

today I cut this rubberstamp of a handicapped cat - it is a hommage to a 19 years old cat of the neighbour, if you like to have a mail art with this cat, let me know in a comment - here the prototype print of it

... trash or treasure ? ...

As far as I'm fond of strolling about fleemarkets I will post now once in a while some acquistions here to let you know what I have seen or what I have even bought. In this case I bought it for 50 € cents. Not mail art but it could have been sent as mail art, to see whether it will arrive safe or broken into pieces.
Starting with this glas bowl, 19 cm in diameter, found at the todays fleemarket in Bad Kissingen; a typical american souvenir from the late 1960ies (I would say) the Empire State Building is still mentioned to be the tallest building in the world - it is made by Houze Art, PT. Marion PA, USA.
What do you think, trash or treasure?

arriving mail art from José Manuel Figueiredo (Portugal)

arriving mail art from José Manuel Figueiredo (Portugal) - José refers as well to the mail art catalogue I sent to him and made me this collage. Thank you

arriving mail art from John Held. jr. (USA)

arriving mail art from John Held. jr. (USA) - John refering to the mail art catalogue I sent him. Thank you.

arriving mail art from Gunter Schwind (Germany

arriving mail art from Gunter Schwind (Germany) - Gunter has sent two cards, one I left at the so-called "Ei" some time ago, and another with his grandchildren(?). Thank you.
see his blog: http://arttowersmailart.blogspot.com/

arriving mail art from Reed Altemus (USA)

arriving mail art from Reed Altemus (USA) - inside this envelope some artcards as a thank you for the mail art catalogue I gave him in Mainz, we met there for a moment. Thank you.
http://hannahhochfanclub.blogspot.com/

see his blog: http://tonerworks.blogspot.com/

arriving mail art from Norbert Koczorski (Germany)

arriving mail art from Norbert Koczorski (Germany) - one of his "Ansichts Karte". Thank you.