Spring Arrives Out of the (Grecian) Blue: A Kool Kard from MomKat

Spring is trying hard to settle in here in the "Sunny South" in Virginia USA, but outside my window the bright shining sun is only barely able to lift the afternoon's high temperature into the low-to-mid 50s F. But the weather is fine here in my little studio looking over a new bit of mail-art from Katerina Nikoltsou. Bounded on three sides by seas (Mediterranean, Ionian (Adriatic) and Aegean) it is hard to picture Greece in my mind without thinking of sky-blue water and warmth: features that always come with envelopes from MomKat.

 

Inside this one is a sweet treasure--a Bunny Window card with splashes of blue and green on a cheery bright yellow field. Stampings of bunnies and eggs peak through a window left from the removing of postage stamps. On the other side of the card is a trademark cluster of rubber-stamp stampings and Katerina's patented smile.

Birds are building nests. The sap is rising. Things are definitely warming up!

Thanks Kate!

InKredible FanZeen de DKult from BG in TeKsas

Continuing in Katch-up (not Ketchup!) mode...

Wow, what an envelope! GnostiK, nomadiK, anarchic, (AntarKtiK?), heretiKal, rhyzomatiK, and--GASP!--phallo-arboreKal??? OMK!

I know I am not the first to report this speKtaKular new zine issue from Biggie Borderline GrafiKs, but I hope that better late than never applies.  I have meticulously studied this text and, especially, the pictures and marginal notes, and I have come to realize something very fundamental. So let's see how these pages turn...

Shall I reveal the mystery? Can you, dear Reader, handle the truth? Obvious isn't it? Borderline GrafiKs is, along with thousands upon thousands of other DKultists around the world and on several parallel (and a few tangential) planes are all stoners. Or maybe just Peter Pans who won't grow up. There is no T.O.KS.I.S! There is no Elgin! There is no KliniK!!! It's all a mass hysteria brought on my bad Kemistry.

Thank you so much Biggie for Klarifying Anti-Reality for everybody.

Off to the Races, with Mail-Art Martha

The British are Coming!  The same day I received mail art from Rebecca Guyver, I also received this fat envelope from Mail-Art Martha (MAM). I love that it is a newspaper page with a headline about postal complaints!

MAM knows well that I am a horse person, and that I have been deprived of horseplay now for nearly four months while recuperating from some surgery to rebuild a wonky foot. And bless her!!! Bless her for bringing me some equine cheer. Now I do love riding and I do love just being around horses, but I am not a gambler, and I don't go to the race track, so some of this horse-racing paraphernalia is just a mystery to me, but as trashpo raw-material-gleanings it makes perfect sense!

Among the racing forms and lottery tickets are a sweet little notecard with a personal message and a post office receipt for mailing the last message I got from MAM.  Now maybe this is a sign to pass the latter onward and see how likely it is to come back home to Kent.

Finally, but certainly not leastly, is a print of one of Martha's wonderful horse drawings. This one a Camargue. And the print is mounted on a truly sweet bit of mail-art featuring DKULT and a hurdle jumper.

Thank you again and again, MAM. And big hugs are coming your way through the vibrasphere.

Dualing Doodles: A book of dreams from Rebecca (and, Diane by proxy)

I must have fallen down a rabbit hole. Have I been gone long? Or maybe I have been in the sleep of Rumplestiltskin...

At any rate, I have been recalcitrant about blogging incoming works for a few weeks, and have been downright stupendously feloniously negligent in making and mailing new art myself.  Well, I'm awake again, so let's start a little catch-up...

This lovely 'lope came from Rebecca Guyver. I am a sucker for trees...a proverbial tree hugger...and this mighty specimen printed on a sea of green bolstered by washi-tape wonderment is sweetly serene. And a note promises a book inside!

And while lost in trees I stumbled upon this card thanking me for participating in 'Becca's Spirit of the Forest call.  And that spirit is captured in this piece of colorful ink and/or paint on a much folded crinkled bit of clay-coated magazine page paper.

But the meat of the message is to be found folded neatly into a book form, and it is a printed copy of a doodle exchange in which Rebecca has extended original works from Diane Keys...forcibly reminding me that I, myself, have been derelict and owe Diane and others my own over-doodles of their under-doodles. And here is that book of Dandy Doodling:

There are stories in these pages! So, dear blog-reading friend, can you tell whose doodles are whose? I think I can...not certain, of course, but here's a hint. One of these artists is a full-time Kult Kween and the other is an art educator.

Hope everyone who reads this will have as much much fun with this bookie as I have had just imagining all the stories it could be telling. Thanks for sharing, Rebecca, and thanks for instigating, DK.

My Activity Book: Mind-Boggling Mail-art from Vizma/Sparkle

 A fat parcel from Sparkle!

This is, without a doubt, one of the most incredible mail-art gifts ever. EVER!!!. Vizma Bruns aka Sparkle Brown, who dwells in the land at the bottom of the land downunder, makes totally magical and endlessly fascinating bookies, and this one is nothing short of amazing. I enjoy blogging because I like to write, and I could write a tome about this, but I actually find myself stammering and stuttering, cast about for words. No. no more words from me. Just take some time to enjoy this "activity book" from Vizma designed, I suppose, to keep me entertained while continuing my convalescence from surgery. Please click on these pix and blow them up to see them in all their glorious details. 

 Does this really have to count for my birthday present as well? Does that mean no more sweet Vizma mail until after 12-21-15? Oh I hope not. Remember there is always our anniversary!

One more pic. Here's the dinosaur unfolded. Now all I have to do is figure out which folds are mountains, and which are valleys. This should keep be out of trouble for a while.

 

Viz, thank you so much. XOXOXO...

World Banana Fortnight?: Incoming from Dean and Rose

And the banana harvest continues, this time from overseas quarters; namely, from Dean in Paris and Rose in Victoria. Now if I could just figure out what "golden banana stands" might be...must be a French thing. :-} Just the same, I love the crazy-quilt nature of this card, not to mention its lopsided parallelogramitude.

From Rose comes a lovely gown of bananas and ostrich (or maybe emu?) feathers sported by David Livingston himself! Amazing fashion design from way down under in southeastern Oz.

Thanks, Dean and Rose for stretching the joys of World Banana Day all the way to March 5th.

Gone Bananas!

In honor of World Banana Day (February 21st), members of the IUOMA "Bananas" Group, under the guiding hand of Deane in Seine, circulated banana mail art. While there may still be a piece or two on the slow banana boat heading my way, there are the gifts I have received to date:

1.From Lynn Radford

2. From Angie and Snooky

3. From Linda French

4. From FinnBadger

5. From Mom Kat

 

 6. From Mim Golub Scalin

Now that is a great bunch of bananas!!!  Thanks to my fruity friends.