Received from Ryosuke Cohen: Brain Cell ~784

It's an honour to receive mail from Ryosuke Cohen.
There's always a lot to see, enjoy, and much food for thought on his Brain Cell Forms.

Above you see Brain Cell form 784, made January 10th, received by a happy receiver today. My contribution is the Milton Nascimento faux postage stamp.
Below Ryosuke Cohen's Bulletin Board.
The names of the contributing mail artists you can find in the message of Febr.25 on the IUOMA network site.



Arigato, thank you very much Ryosuke! And thanks - grazie - merci - danke schön - dank - thank you - gracias - obrigado - kiitos - dzięki - dziakuju - sonas ort - arigato all contributing mail artists!

Merel - Blackbird - Pássaro Preto (1)

Voor het Braziliaanse 'Blackbird project'- For the Brazilian 'Blackbird - Pássaro preto - project'.
Uit zijn snavel komt het mooie Braziliaanse lied 'O cio da terra'. The song he sings is the beautiful Brazilian song 'O cio da terra'.

Bij het horen van het woord 'Blackbird' denken we natuurlijk meteen aan de Merel.
Maar.. De Braziliaanse 'zwarte vogel' is geen merel (melro-preto in 't Portugees), maar een andere, letterlijk de pássaro preto. Vandaar déze zwarte vogel erbij getekend.

Hearing the name 'Blackbird' I instantly think of our common blackbird.
However.. The Brazilian 'black bird' (literally 'pássaro preto') is not the same bird as the common blackbird (turdus merula). The also nice singing Brazilian Blackbird is quite distinct, for this reason I added o pássaro preto to this mail.

Artistamps (1)

Mijn allereerste arti-postzegelvel! Wel nog even bedenken hoe ik alle randen 't gemakkelijkst perforeren kan (anders wordt 't met de hand)...
Een eerbetoon aan de Braziliaanse zanger/componist/muzikant Milton Nascimento.
De originele afbeelding maakte ik alweer járen geleden met aquarel en pen. Grappig om te zien hoe de herhaling, in zo'n postzegelvel, een beeld weer heel anders maakt.

My very first artistamps sheet! Now solving the 'problem' of how to perforate the stamp edges in a an easy way (alternatively I could do it by hand)...
A tribute to the Brazilian singer/composer/musician Milton Nascimento.
The original image (mixed media: watercolour and pen) I made many years ago. Funny to see that repetition, inherent in stamp sheets, does change such a single image a lot!