Friday, July 27, 2007
Post card by Test Tower, Centralia, WA, USA.
Почтовая карточка от Test Tower, Централия, США.
Mail art attracted attention of the main newspaper of Russia! The article "Postal Creation" by Tatyna Zhelonkina appeared in "Rossijskaya Gazeta" last Friday. The article tells about mail art as it is and the ongoing projects "Alyonka" and "Sputnik". In the story the name of French mail artist Denis Charmot is mentioned - in connection with his successful "Patchwork" project. The story is illustrated by the photo from the First International Mail Art Show in Yoshkar-Ola (October 2006) and the image of the envelope created by Alexander Nasekin (Cheboksari) and Valery Shimanovsky (Nizhnekamsk).
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Alyonka with Fish. Post card by Scott Ray Randall, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Artistamps on the envelope from Sergey Legotin, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The second quarter of Patchwork envelopes sent all over the world.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The main building of "Red October" chocolate factory, Moscow. The photo was made last spring by my pen friend Svetlana Svininnikova, citizen of Ramenskoye, Moscow region.
Sensational discovery! I've managed to fing the inverse image of Alyonka! Recently mail artist Alex Klukin presented me with this chocolate bar wrapper. The wrapper was issued in the 1960-s in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) for chocolate named "Alyonka" produced by pastry factory named after N.K. Krupskaya. This very copy is dated November 15, 1965. We can presume that the "original" Alyonka image of "Red October" Moscow factory (used since 1966) was not the first!
Monday, July 09, 2007
Post card received from Judith Skolnick, Washington, DC, USA.
Black Bird. Post card created by David Stone, Baltimore, MD, USA.
This envelope from a Brazilian mail artist Paulo by name is a real piece of art! But will anybody help me to read the address of its sender?
Friday, July 06, 2007
Digital print by Marie Bernadette Dupont, Bouvigny Boyeffles, France.
Envelope collaged by Anastasiya Viktorova, Nizhnekamsk, Russia. In the envelope there was a photo portrait of another sitizen of Nizhnakamsk and Alyonka project participant Irina Dvoyeglazova.
Post card by Aurelie Berthelon, Montpellier, France. Using Alyonka's image in this collage helped Aurelie "to kill two birds with one stone". This nice work will become her first contribution to Sputnik project. At the same time it is her second contribution to Alyonka collection. Aurelie invites mailartists to visit her blog http://www.litterartis.blogspot.com.
Artworks (plastocollage and lazergraphia) by Tiziana Baracchi, Venezia, Italy.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Post cards collaged by Tatyana Makarova, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.
Post card sent by Brazilian mail artist William A. I received it in April - two month ago! How could I forget to post it in time? Excuse me, William! Best wishes to your mail art project!
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Looking for Peace. Post card by Anne Braunschweig, Corrales, NM, USA.
Drawing (color pencils + ink&pen) on the envelope sent to Valery Shimanovsky as a contribution to his "Yelabuba - My Love!" mail art show. Very soon this drawing will become an artistamp.
Front side and reverse of the post card sent as a contribution to "Folk" mail art exhibition being organized by Clube Millenium, Porto, Portugal. The work is devoted to Mari folk song "Pokto Vele, Korno Sai" ("Just Ride, The Road is Good") and the traditional Mari embroidery.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Patchwork envelopes sent all over the world with add&return post cards.
