Sent to Arantza (EH).
Collage made with a catalogue of gifts and some flowers and leaves. Made to wish happy new year to my friend Arantza who studies Arab and jewellery.
31 January 2012
كل سنة وأنت بخير
Sent to Arantza (EH).
Collage made with a catalogue of gifts and some flowers and leaves. Made to wish happy new year to my friend Arantza who studies Arab and jewellery.
30 January 2012
28 January 2012
27 January 2012
Red-coloured Envelope with Money
Sent to Heleen (the Netherlands).
In fact, I've got this little red envelope from Bree, who lives in Malaysia. She explained me that during Chinese New Year married adults give unmarried friends and relatives a red-coloured envelope with some money on it. It is a tradition which is practised by all the Chinese in the world. It symbolises health and helps you to protect from bad things.
But I didn't send any money to my friend, but a little love letter brooch:
26 January 2012
The Year of the Ox
Received from Russ (the USA).
Designed to celebrate Chinese New Year (26th January 2009).
25 January 2012
24 January 2012
Alpino II
Sent to Ryosuke Cohen (Japan).
Colour pencils box turned into a postcard. It is the second part of this.
23 January 2012
22 January 2012
Life or Death
«Celui
qui attend une lettre de la personne aimée sait
ce pouvoir de vie ou de mort des mots.»
Amélie Nothomb
(Le
Voyage d'hiver)
20 January 2012
Brain Cell Project
Brian Cell is a mail art project begun by Ryosuke Cohen in June 1985. The project is basically a networked art project where individual artists create their own 30x42 cm work of art with artist stamps,
drawings, stickers and so on. This is sent to Cohen, who prints each
cell - 150 copies each - with a Cyclostyle
(now out of production). One copy is sent to the author, as well as
other participants. New editions are published every 8 to 10 days. As of
January 2011, there have been 811 issues (I think). You can see most of them in the blog Brain Cell Compilation.
Cohen described the origin of the project's name in 1985:
"Well, I’ll title my work “Brain Cell”, because the structure of a
brain through a microscope looks like the diagram of the Mail Art
network. Thousands of Neurons clung and piled up together are just like
the Mail Art network, I believe."
 |
| I've got two issues so far: nº 796 and 807 |
Call
Please send me your stamp design, rubber stamp, or 150 stickers or seals.
I will print or paste these materials onto the A3 size paper, creating 150
sheets. I will then send a sheet back with a list of addresses to each participant.
I will publish at intervals of 8 to 10 days at that time will include 60 people
or so. Brain Cell is always seeking a change, does not intend to settle and
care of it’s extension of the Network. So... don’t mail a lump of stuff
for several issues. Please send them to me one issue at a time, Thank you!
Ryosuke Cohen c/o Brain Cell
3-76-1-A-613
3-76-1-A-613
Yagumokitacho Moriguchi
City Osaka 570
Japan
My contribution:
19 January 2012
Post für den Tiger
If you read this fantastic book by Janosch, you will discover how the little Bear and the little Tiger invented mail...
18 January 2012
17 January 2012
Bonfim
And inside this amazing envelope I found some really interesting things like these:
16 January 2012
14 January 2012
I Like Mail People
I like mail people. I mean, people who is happy by opening the mail box and finding something on it; people who is thankful with every mail; people who waste their time doing mail art, or writing long letters, or finding the right postcard and stamp for everybody...
13 January 2012
12 January 2012
El carter Joliu
 |
| The Jolly Postman, by Janet & Allan Ahlberg |
The Three Wise Men brought this fantastic present last week!
Well, exactly this version:
10 January 2012
First Alphabet
Sent by Riet and Marion (both from the Netherlands).
In older days, kids in the Netherlands learned to read with this book. I like the relationship between these postcards: the second one it's the first one through a magnifying glass.
The postcard with the complete alphabet is the very first I received through the Postcrossing site (in September 2008). And Heleen also sent me the matched stamps!
09 January 2012
Finnish Letters
Sent by Karen (Finland) and Marita (Finland, too).
Extra big postcards from a book to learn reading. Do you think I can complete this alphabet one day?
06 January 2012
Real and Alternative Stamps
Tea packaging sent as a postcard. With real and artistamps! It is nice that the postmark is on all of them.
05 January 2012
Vintage Christmas
Received from Heleen (the Netherlands).
Three Christmas and New Year postcards I love (by Annelinde Tempelman and Frederike Evenblij owners of and designers at Studio 100%).
And I think she sent me three postcards instead of only one because she wish me a very very very happy New Year! I must say my favourite one is the third; because of the cup of tea, of course.
03 January 2012
02 January 2012
Special Postmarks
