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Arlington51 post:x0504477 title x0504477 body Minneapolis Gnome's Latest Activity on International Union of Mail-Artists http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/MinneapolisGnome Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:07 +0000 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:07 +0000 Minneapolis Gnome's Latest Activity on International Union of Mail-Artists http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/MinneapolisGnome https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3788395904?profile=RESIZE_64x64&width=50&height=50&crop=1%3A1 50 1129313323 Mikel Untzilla left a comment for Minneapolis Gnome https://iuoma-network.ning.com/xn/detail/2496677:Comment:2763013?xg_source=activity Mikel Untzilla left a comment for Minneapolis Gnome
]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2023 06:52:11 +0000 1127900564 Minneapolis Gnome posted a blog post https://iuoma-network.ning.com/xn/detail/2496677:BlogPost:2742660?xg_source=activity Minneapolis Gnome posted a blog post

Wreck This Journal (by US Postal Mail!) Project Contributions from Robin J!

On January 28, 2022 Robin J from Arlington, TX sent in pages 71 through 76 of our Wreck This Journal project! She also added prints and a cool envelope! Check them out:This is the collage she made on the back of the envelope, above!Below are the cool prints she made:I LOVE the purple paisely!Here are the other pages she contributed:Thank you for helping WRECK THIS JOURNAL, Robin! See More

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Cascadia ArtPost Sent SUCH COOL DOCUMENTATION of Cascadia to me on 1 24 2022

Cascadia ArtPost sent me the most amazing packet of information about Cascadia in January of 2022! Due to difficulties I occasionally experience synchronizing and remaining within specific parameters of the space / time continuum, I'm blogging about it 10 months later in your time line. For this I deeply apologize as I fully recognize that this is frustrating and disorienting, to say the least.Above is the cover of the very cool and informative copy of the Diorama Diaries, originally published in June 2020. It's filled with amazing photos of the Cascadia Post Office. The workers inside the post office and even on the loading dock for the postal trucks are featured in full color. Cascadia has a plethora of mailboxes throughout downtown as well as package pickup and delivery service trucks throughout the city going about their work. Jack was GENEROUS AF in sending me this full sheet of Cascadia ArtPost postage, featuring Peeps who live in Cascadia. I'm JEALOUS OF MYSELF for getting this mail from Cascadia ArtPost, so if the reader finds themselves jealous as well, I think that is perfectly reasonable.Jack also sent me a copy of the final documentation of a Mail Art Call produced by Cascadia Art created with Mail Art Martha in 2017. They created an entire booklet showcasing the 2017 Clown Parade which took place in Cascadia and the details are more than amazing, vivid and exciting. I just love Cascadia!Included in the January mailing from Cascadia ArtPost was the first day issue of "Cascadia Artpost", dated November 21, 2008. This print out of the blog concisely describes the entire Cascadia Arpost project, which I am a huge admirer of.The Cascadia ArtPost mailing came directly from Cascadia, using real Cascadia Diorama Stamps, postage cancelations and everything. I couldn't be more enthusiastic about Cascadia, I have true admiration of an artist who can take on and stick with such a detailed project for such a long time. THANK YOU, JACK!See More

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Wreck This Journal (by US Postal Mail!) Project Contributions from SaraMarie Bottaro!

Please accept my apologies for the recent slow down in my documentation of our WTJ (by US Postal Mail!) collaborative art project. I've got a lot of very awesome art from a number of super cool, fun artists to share with everyone! Today I'm sharing the groovy art of SaraMarie Bottaro!Pages 19 - 23 were mailed back to Minneapolis on January 19th, 2022 wrapped like the gift they are!I love this dark blue patterned paper and am so glad it came through the mail safe and sound! The Wreck This Journal pages themselves came wrapped in a piece of sketchbook paper with this art: It makes me think of sound waves, planets, ripples in time, ripples in the ocean and a couple of beautiful sunsets, personally. It makes me feel absolutely meditative.On Page 17, SaraMarie gets into a serious grove with the "Fill this page with circles" prompt. It feels organic and alive to me, filled with energy and motion! Hungry for more? Try page 18!Thai fried rice looks delicious! Do you love the illustration? I do!In continuation of the hungry theme, SaraMarie takes a nice bite (or a good long chew) on the page 19 as well! Thirsty yet?Don't worry, page 20 brings us a good thirst quencher and the memory of grade school it conjures in our artists mind. Page 21 makes me think of a drone image of grasslands, fields and forests with shadowed topography.Page 22, folded up as an airplane, says "I don't go fast or far, but don't give up." This reminds me of so many of the beater cars I've been through in my lifetime..Don't miss out on that gorgeous monogram, everyone!Page 23's instructions are to use the paper to wrap something, but first our artist covers it in beautiful ginko leaf images that overlap each other - which is a gorgeous idea for wrapping paper, don't you agree?Check out what page #23 is wrapped around! There's a painting planning thumbnail and a little bit of white gouache for painting with!Thank you so much for your contributions to the Wreck this Journal (by US Postal Mail!) collaborative art project, SaraMarie! This has been so fun to explore and share!See More

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Wreck This Journal (by US Postal Mail!) Project Contributions from David & Star McCoy!

David and Star McCoy sent back gloriously "wrecked" journal pages from St. Cloud, MN! They're bright, playful, fun and I love them! David took these first several pages and had at them, scroll down and you'll find Star's artistic work follows. At the bottom of this blog I'll give you a look at the coolio envelope their art arrived in!This first page, above, which I assigned the letter "a" before mailing out to our artistic duo, is the title page of the Wreck this Journal. It cracks me up, as David took it to heart by bombing it, shooting it, setting it on fire, beating it with a sledge hammer / rubber mallet, using it as a coaster for his mug, possibly smearing a little food on it, inking it with ink pads and illustrating it with a shocked green man, desk with books and the penguin from Penguin books. I now wonder, does David draw comics? Does he make zines? If not, can we convince him to please start? I want to see them all! The reverse of page A, and page B, have been well and thoroughly, brightly, vibrantly inked by David. He's also used what I suspect is a hand carved stamp of foliage, a big radiating star, honey comb cells and some purple vine like foliage. It all comes together as what I interpret as an abstract explosion of joy to the eye.The reverse of page B shows an inky backed collage including a castle balloon in the sky, a dapper young couple trapped, floating in time, and a disembodied eye staring over in the direction of page C, most likely in deep contemplation over the existence and message of the artist who brought the entire collage together.On page D, the book gets bossy and our patient artist replies by coloring every letter in and positing the cryptic reply, "Snoitcurtsni". Having brought us through the introduction, the artist generously allows us a peek into his mind using word associations, scrambled letters and a numbering exercise. Officially and anonymously submitted in triplicate to a board certified psychoanalyst, a diagnosis of "well adjusted, intelligent, creative artist unafraid of color and experimentation" was received back and is now being publicized without authorization of the non consenting subject.Thank you for rebelling on Page 2, David! "Leave this page blank..."? "Y?" indeed, especially when you can make it pop with white paint and get macro on it with infinite question marks! A well and thoroughly cracked spine appears on the reverse of Page 1, and I as a viewer am left wondering if it is the spine of a rat, a mouse or perhaps a prehistoric member of the rodentia family. On the reverse of page 2, David McCoy hits us with a very cool stamp or lino carving of a tiger with ears back, mouth snarling and claws out. It's lifelike in its expression and it seems to have the energy of a compressed spring ready to burst forward and out upon an unlucky, or unwise, threat before it. Thank you for your art pages, David!Star McCoy begins her artwork on page 51 and binds all of it with a red paper doily and golden ribbon, both of which I will make sure are included in the re-bound "Wreck This Journal"!On Page 51, Star seems to have crumpled the page, daubed it in glue and then dipped it in dark blue and green glitter before unfolding and flattening it back out. I really think this would be a great "official suggestion" to be published in the "Wreck this Journal" series! It makes a very nice effect and begs the question of what paintings made by dipping crumpled paper in paint and pressing them to blank canvases or paper would look like. It reminds me of "rag rolling", which I once did to a bedrooms walls to create a parchment paper like effect that I was very pleased with. On the reverse of page 51, Star adds a collage that, combined with her page of good thoughts on Page 52, seems to speak to love, self compassion and possibility! But this is just my set of eyes, hopefully all readers will interpret it for themselves and take meaning from it as is appropriate to their disposition and world views. On Page 53 Star serves up carrots, peppers and what I suspect are purple onions - all really good, vitamin rich veggies that can extend our lives and eyesight so that we can continue to enjoy more of this eye-candy that is "Wreck this Journal (By US Postal Mail!)"!The reverse of Page 53 contains a watercolor portrait of a person with bright red hair and beard over a picture of people holding hands on a green hill. This red - orange color is carried forward to Page 54 where it presents itself as thread binding a circle around the blasphemous suggestion of book destruction, upheld by a collage of geography, misty figures, facts and figures, plus hearts. My great - grandmother would surely approve of the back of this embroidery of orange thread, because it matches what the front looks like and is tied off quite neatly. So seems to have said the wisdom of my mother, who my great grandmother taught to embroider. On Page 55 Star gives us truth and a pep talk, which I think we all are probably in need of here in the year 2022!On Page 56 we are treated to cool things like cancelled postage stamp tape, little green friends, a fancy veil tailed blue gold fish, a pink haired beret-wearing girl, can top and ...wait...what's that up in the corner?On opening its window we find more encouragement that we're on the right track!Especially those of us who woke up today and celebrated it because we're famous, glamorous artists - and that's just what famous, glamorous artists do! They also remember that even when we find ourselves torn out, put in a pocket and put through the wash, we're still alive, artists, and belong in a book.The end page is beautiful dyed tissue paper, green and sunset hills and the lovely red doily. I love it all, thank you so much Star McCoy!See More

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