asemic writing

I have been looking at quite a bit of asemic writing on the IUOMA site (please don't ask me to define it fully but briefly it seems to be writing that is wordless and doesn't have any particular meaning). To me it is the rhythm,colour, texture and shape of the marks that come together to give an open, abstract type of meaning. I was very interested in Cy Twombly many years ago(still am of course) and did a series of drawings in this area  Anyway, I digress. Today out of the blue (almost) I received this great little book from Cheryl Penn in South Africa about asemic writing. We are in a collaborative project together but I had no idea that this was the focus of her book. I have made a good start to my part of the project but have got a bit sidetracked onto other art stuff so this is be best possible reminder.

This is a look at the cover fully open and is part of a cut up painting used in this little hand altered edition of 10 . I'll post more images on my new blog MAILOUT dedicated to mail art.

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shellie's envelope for her mail art

I've started another blog MAILOUT so I can keep track of the mail art that is coming in at a fast rate. I'm sure this will slow down as I slow down and sent less stuff myself. I also need to keep track of what I send so I don't duplicate (embarrassing) but I don't think a blog would do it for me. The IUOMA site which tries to do this, is a bit complicated and untidy. A little notebook from a past era is probably the easiest and simplest way. If you are interested in the content of Shellie's envelope you could pay the new blog a visit. I just learnt that some of the mail artists only do envelopes and they often don't have anything in them. The group is a worldwide group of artists who send, small scale mail art to each other through the postal system (snail-mail). Mail- Art may include postcards, paper, a collage of found or recycled images and objects, rubber stamps, artist-created stamps and paint, music, sound art, poetry, or anything that can be put in an envelope and sent via post.

flubbing

Even an unfamiliar word can be a trigger to get me off my backside to leave a post after a long spell. Thank you Robyn for flubbing and letting us all know. I too have been flubbing but with some success although not of a very high order. Still it keeps up some of the momentum we all need to stay constantly creative and doing new things. My recent involvement with IUOMA is
taking off into new areas of flubbing but loving it. This is one of the recent post cards that will head off overseas and keep the postal service alive for just a little longer.

 

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art mail

Just received my first post card from a mail artist Vizma Bruns who belongs to a group I found on the website of The International Union of Mail Art (IUOMA) which I joined just a few days ago. I have always been a bit of  a fan of mail art which I was involved with for a while in the 70's. I just love the old snail mail and the anticipation of something arriving in the mail. I have been sending my friends post cards and zines for a while but needed a more steady flow of mail to keep the postie busy. 
I was surprised that this old genre of art activity is still alive and well and spread all over the world. However with postage rates being what they are, it is better to send over a few things than just a post card (same price up to 50gm internationally) so my zines are also flying further afield. Every day now, like an excited little boy, I eagerly await the postman and get very disappointed when it's only a bill although we seem to do most of that online too.