Digital Art Journal

Eric (France) is keeping a 2025 Art Journal project, titled Dream. Each page/image is created using the computer, and then printed in the form of a postcard. I thought it is an interesting idea. Here you can see the pages created so far.

He prints every postcard twice: one for his archives, and one to be sent. I was the lucky recipient of the cover.

Clocks & Mail

John (the UK) started early this year a mail project about clocks. I had the honour to have sent the first contribution:

My second one, also posted on the blog of the project:

And the third. It shows the main cloister of the University of Valencia during a fire in 1932. It the middle you can see the statue of Lluís Vives. It stands there.

Grey

Sent by Carmen (Spain).

The Russian Typewriter

Letter sent to Laura (the UK).

The artist stamp comes from here (In case you are wondering: I added the due postage stamps!).

The Delightfully Languorous Anticipation of the Reply

«Real letters, written by real people who preferred the sensual act of writing by hand, the delightfully languorous anticipation of the reply, to the reptilian coldness of the keyboard and instantaneity of the Internet —people for whom the act of writing was a deliberate choice and is some cases, one sensed, a matter of principle, a stand taken in favour of a life style not quite so determined by the race against time and the obligation to perform.»

Dénis Thériault, The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

Blue Little Letter

Postcard sent to Kathy & Donovan from Letter Writers Alliance (the USA).

Bunch of Letters

Day before yesterday's mail

The postal service has become sort of crazy lately. Most days I go to check my post office box fruitlessly: empty, empty and disappointingly empty again. And one morning, suddenly, I find this bunch of letters (with the string, yes).

I'm not sure if I will ever get used to receive mail every ten or twelve days. But the system seems to work that way right now.

Books & Roses

Collage sent to Kay's grandma (Canada), as my contribution to the Challenge #27 of Mail a Smile.

The theme was Flowers and Plants. Of course I had to choose roses, because April 23rd is Saint George's Day, and in my country we celebrate the Books and Roses Festival. You are still on time to buy a book and/or a rose for someone you love!

Sending books from Morocco is a customs nightmare. So this year I just send some postcards (to the Netherlands, the USA and the UK). I hope all they have arrived on time!

Arrived!

Also published here

Good Little News

Letter sent to Heleen (the Netherlands).

Moroccan Spring

Collage sent to Raphael'L (France).

Malerwinkelhaus Catalogue

When I participated in Malerwinkelhaus mail art call, I didn't expect to receive this wonderful documentation of the project.

But some months letters, it was really a surprise to receive by mail the advertising card and this wonderful catalogue! Of course I immediately browsed its pages looking for my contributions:

Can I say this is the coolest mail art call I have participated in?

Second Floury Letter

Letter sent from Micu (Hungary) inside a flour packaging. This is not the first one. And, again... it contained a Smurf  (among other nice things).

Pony Express

William H. Russell, Alexander Majors and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express mail service on 1860. This was a very innovative concept: riders with letters on horseback racing from California to Missouri (and vice versa) in order to deliver mail on time. The first mail arrived on April 14th. During 18 months, and before the telegraph, it became the most direct means of communication from coast to coast in the USA, by reducing the time for messages to about 10 days.

I wonder how much time a letter needs in order to travel from the East coast to the West coast of the USA nowadays...

To honour the 155th anniversary (two days ago), Google put an interactive highly addictive time wasting game on some of his local homepages. It has you picking up and delivering mail while fighting various obstacles, including bandits, avalanches, rivers and giant cactus, on your way. 

Literary Houses on Postcards

After Dicken's House...

Keats House

Keats House, in Hampstead (North London, the UK), once occupied by the English Romantic poet John Keats. I cannot help showing another postcard from this museum. Is there a better way to finish a love letter?

Ever truly yours, John Keats

Chiswick House

Chiswick House is located in west London (the UK). It was designed by Lord Burlington and completed in 1729. There are a lot of literary details in this house. For instance, this furniture that finished in Chatsworth House, the building that inspired Jane Austen Pemberley's of Pride and Prejudice... As my friend wrote, the whole house is like being inside a novel. 

She also told me that every room has a different colour. I like to have postcards of inside and outside. 

Do Write When You Can

«I also here must offer apologies for going so much without having engaged you at all. I had a friend who wrote letters to me in my 20s and would go on & on and never ask a single question, so I never knew if he was even interested in what I might say. So, please, dear reader –how is with you? Are you well? Do write when you can.»

Larissa Dickey, last paragraph of a letter published in The Letters Page 1