Added to and returned (2): E-mail art

Blijk ik aan de ene kant nogal langzaam te zijn met het beantwoorden van add-and-return mail art, toen ik het verzoek van Fraenz Frisch kreeg om iets toe te voegen aan zijn e-add-and-return mail art, was het binnen een paar uur klaar!
Deze collage is van de hand (en computers) van Keith Bates, Fraenz zelf, RCBz, Paul Tiililä en mij.

Meer informatie over dit recent gestarte project van Fraenz Frisch vind je hier.

I appear to be rather slow in replying to add-and-return projects in snail mail. Meanwhile I surprised myself (and maybe dear Fraenz Frisch, too) by replying to this email add-and-return request within a few hours!
This collage has been composed by Keith Bates, Fraenz himself, RCBz, Paul Tiililä and me.

More information about this, recently started, e-mail art project by Fraenz Frisch you can read here.

Added to and returned (1)

In de afgelopen paar jaar ontving ik verschillende 'add and return' kunstwerken. Ik loop helaas flink achter met beantwoorden, maar hopelijk lukt het de komende tijd dat alsnog te doen. Boven- en onderstaande is in ieder geval op de bus gedaan.
Van Laura Daniels uit Engeland ontving ik mooie mail art, met de vraag om 'toe te voegen en door te sturen' (terugsturen, werd het). Het grappige van 'add and return' mail art is dat ik niet altijd weet wáár ik precies iets aan moet toevoegen ('t zou best kunnen dat het aan een van de andere attributen in de envelop had gemoeten). Maar goed, dat is de vrijheid van de kunstenaar, natuurlijk.

In the past years I received several nice add-and-return-to mail art. And I must apologize that I am very much behind in adding and returning... I'll try to add-to and return asap, but to the people who are waiting for my reply (like E [Cavellini], Adamandia [tv-screen], Koos de Jonge [art book], Amuldo [folded booklet] and Lubomyr [Stamps Heart]): please have a little - or a lot - more patience!..

The funny thing of add-and-return mail (or add and pass on, in this case, Laura's request was) is that I don't always know which part(s) to add to.

Many months ago I received mail art from Laura Daniels from the UK: two nice drawings and some other pieces (which might have been the ones to add-to?!?).
However, I choose to stick one of the two drawings completely to a larger blue piece of paper, to which I added a drawing (a drawing which I never would have been able to create without the inspiration of Laura's mailed art!). And in addition I drew some copies of the, er, balloons, flowers?, from Laura's other design on the envelope.

Thank you very much, Laura! Hope you'll like the additions!



An other add-and-return-to/pass-on project is Ruud Janssen's 'stamp collage' project for the TAM rubberstamp archive. I stamped these to add them to my mail for Laura. Looking forward to knowing what wil be added to these!

I still can't see it!

Altijd leuk om mail art per post te ontvangen. Maar... frustrerend als je niet weet van wie! Uit Engeland, aan de postzegel te zien. Even dacht ik aan het MyRealWall Head Quarter. Of toch niet?.. Help!

Always nice to receive mail art via snail mail. However... it's frustrating when one doesn't know who the sender was. And from where? The UK, according to the stamp? One second I thought it might have been sent from the MyRealWall Head Quarter. But I'm not sure... Help!

'n Kaartje van Elena en Andy!

Ontvangen van Elena en Andy, ook bekend van, respectievelijk, de Quilling projects and other crafts, en van My Real Wall, en beiden ook Mail Art 365 kunstenaars.

Received from Elena and Andy, also known from the Quilling projects and other crafts, and from My Real Wall, respectively, and both also Mail Art 365 artists.

Thank you very much, Elena and Andy!

Yes! Post from Andy and Elena

Post uit Engeland, gemaakt en gestuurd door Elena - bekend van haar Quilling Projects - en Andy - van de Real Wall - Hoang!

Post from the UK, made and sent by Elena - famous for her Quilling Projects - and Andy - My Real Wall - Hoang!



Een mooie kaart gemaakt door Elena (jammergenoeg kunnen het reliëf en de schitteringen niet goed door de scanner worden gereproduceerd, dus die moet je er maar bij denken!).

A beautiful card (the scanner alas cannot reproduce how it feels and glitters) made by Elena.

Plus een potloodtekening van Andy, en mocht je je afvragen wat 'quilling' is, zie hieronder rechts, de achterkant van Elena's visitekaartje.

Plus an Andy pencil drawing, and for the ones who ask themselves 'What is quilling?', see the picture on the right, which is the back side of Elena's visiting card.





Plus een bijzondere gedecoreerde envelop. Met toevoeging van de Post (joost-mag-weten-waarom, want het adres klopt toch?! Maar goed, altijd leuk om zulke extra's te mogen ontvangen!)

Plus a special decorated envelop, on which the mail company left traces, for unknown reasons (the address was/is right - but of course it's always fun when the Mail adds paper to our mail arts!)



Thank you very much indeed, Elena and Andy!

Zalop - Lopza

Is het graffity op een echte muur, of gewoon op een envelop?

Is this graffity on a real wall, or just on an envelope?



Hoe dan ook, 'Zalop' lijkt terrein te winnen, al klinkt 'Lopza' beter.
Verstuurd naar - in ieder geval een echte muur - de U.K.

Anyway, 'Zalop' seems to gain ground, although I prefer 'Lopza'.
Sent to - a real wall in - the U.K.

Received from Andy T Geezer

In twee dagen tijd ontving ik m'n allereerste Mailart 365 postkunstwerken (twee nog wel!). Eerst werd ik verrast door Erin Fae met een bijdrage aan het Real Weird Animals project.
En nu bereikte dit prachtige mail art werk m'n brievenbus!
Met dunnetjes een stempelspoor toegevoegd door de Royal Mail.

My very first two received Mailart 365 works of Mail Art reached me within 48 hours! First Erin Fae surprised me with a real weird animal.
And now this great work of mail art reached my mailbox!
With a thin stamp mark added by Royal Mail.



Getekend en verstuurd door Andy, bij velen bekend door My Real Wall.

Drawn and sent by Andy, well-known by My Real Wall.

Thanks a lot, Andy, what a big surprise to see such a beautiful pen drawing, made by you! I don't know why you ever could have hesitated to, or was waiting to start to put pen to paper, as you've got talent!!!

(p.s. I hope the written calligraphic words will say something good and not be offensive!? :o) )

Meer over de afbeelding vind je hier en hier.
More about the picture you can find here, and here.

Graphic novel 10x15

Een 10x15 cm beeldverhaal - vervolg op onze theevisite (zie hier en hier) - voor het kleine grote stripverhalen project van Andy REAL wall en de Westminster bibliotheek.

A 10x15 cm graphic novel - continued of our virtual visit to Andy and Elena (see here and here) - for the Little Big Stories mail art project of Andy REAL wall and the Westminster Libraries.

Received from Okadascat

A rather unusual mail art object came into my postbox: Knitting Art!
Made by Okadascat as an answer to my contributions to Okadascat's I Like Purple mail art project.

About Knitting Art there is a lot to say. Thanks to Okadascat and to other mail artists I learned that knitting can be used for all kinds of art purposes, like Kniffity, and even you can replace nature by Knitted Flora.

And this beautiful envelope covered the cool brooch...



... a brick wall envelope which for some reason made me think of an other zealous mail artist: Andy, of course, the founder of the Real Wall.

How nice to see the circle is round (or: the world is small): on Andy and Elena's Real Wall there is a lot of Knitting Art from Okadascat!

Thanks a lot, Okadascat, for your brooch, stamps and your kind message!

Purple cat

Gestuurd naar / sent to Okadascat's i-like-purple project.

Received from Okadascat

This beautiful turquoise Cat was made and sent by Okadascat, as an answer to my contribution to the I-like-purple project.

Thank you so much, Okadascat, I really appreciate your fine my-favourite-color drawing!