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Continuing my series of a&a postcards (augmented&ameliorated)

2008-02-03T19:08:00.000+01:00

a birthday card for Roxane! (november 2007)

a birthday cake for Janneke! (november 2007)

A new red one for Lydie!

2008-02-03T19:05:00.001+01:00

Sending from october 2007

En Lydie weet maar niet niet van ophouden (I don't know how to say this in English!)

2007-10-24T20:47:00.001+01:00

and the post office administrator made a suitable contribution, putting the levy announcement exactly in the space left open by Lydie!

Celebrate Françoise's 50 years!

2007-10-24T19:36:00.001+01:00

I'm making postcards of a new style: great fun! Augment and ameliorate old postcards and photos! Françoise received the first specimen for her 50 years!

Suprise: a mail_art sending from Jessy Kendall

2007-10-24T19:29:00.000+01:00

It's each time again a SURPRISE: to find in my mailbox, a colored, pasted envelope from a completely unknown person. This time, it was "Jessy Kendall": he also sends a big_smiling photo of himself with a friend and a series of add&pass_on sheets (that will appear here after transformation).

Piggies to Nicole Eippers

2007-10-24T18:33:00.000+01:00

Another wild envelope from Lydie!

2007-10-23T22:48:00.001+01:00

A BLUE sending in the correspondence with Lydie

2007-10-23T22:40:00.002+01:00

MailArt to BaluDart

2007-10-23T22:24:00.000+01:00

A darts envelope went to Balu D'Art (http://baludart.blogspot.com/; see his sending "Florence Nightingale, the 'female hero' of a dart-amateur" on my heldinnen_blog http://wimplet-heldinnen.blogspot.com/). I included an article on Raymond Dart (1893 - 1988), Professor of Anatomy who became a brilliant physical anthropologist and paleontologist. In 1924, Raymond Dart found the "Australopithecus africanus", the discovery that made him famous.

MailArt & Collage to Sonnenschein

2007-10-23T22:10:00.000+01:00

In a call, Sonnenschein asked for collages writing: "AND DON'T FORGET TO DECORATE THE ENVELOPE! MAIL IS MORE EXCITING WHEN IT'S PRETTY!"

So, I sent a collage in a mail_art envelope:

Its content, the collage, before and after it went into the envelope:

MailArt from João Alberto Lupin

2007-10-23T21:52:00.000+01:00

João Alberto Lupin sent two zines and an ad&pass_on sheet.

A series of add&pass_ons transformed during the Ascension w.e.!

2007-06-30T19:08:00.000+01:00

The day before Ascension Thursday, that is, on the 16th of May, I received again an envelope from Mete Sarabi:

The envelope contained some 10 sheets with Add&Pass-on productions. I was irritated, frustrated: "I don't like these Add&Pass-on things." "I am not going to add just one element and then copy the sheets and send the whole business to somebody else!" However, one day later, at the beginning of my 4-day long Ascension w.e. ("on faisait le pont"), I thought that I could "do something" with / on the sheet that was most empty. And so I transformed
into

And then I got the idea that if I could take each sheet individually and rework it, it could be fun!
And so I did.
I sent the Red lipped "Yesterday was Woensdag 16 mei, a W-day for We-people" to the young anthropologist Siebrichie, in a Chinese envelope.

The next emptiest sheet

was transformed into another Red lipped male heroic specimen

and I sent it to my mail_art friend LYDIE:

Regarding the next one, I forgot to take a photograph of the original, so I restored it as much as possible by putting little while sheets on my already_made_additions, where possible…

OK, but my added sheet was

and I sent it to Pati Bristow, a woman discovered on the Internet and who has an ongoing mail_art call for PEACE-NO MORE WAR:

Number 4, originally

became

and went to MARIE-PIERRE, the other member of the Rocquencourt mail_art gang!

The next one, originally

went, in its transformed form

to João Alberto Lupin, found on Internet and who seemed to be interested in add&pass_on mail_art. In addition, he is living in Brazil, a country that, though its Portuguese language has a particular significance for me.

I completely forgot to make a photograph of the original of N° 6…, but it became
and went to Laura Barletta, another Internet discovery!

N° 7

became

and went to Céline Guichard (yes, another woman from the internet).

The next one, n° 8, was

and had to go to a man with a sense of humour. Zapping on mail_art related Internet sites, I had discovered already a Frenchman, Denis Charmot. He seemed to be the designed recipient of this add&pass_on…

And last, but not least, n° 9, which I did not like AT ALL before TRANSFORMATION

AFTERWARDS, I liked it very much. I sent it to Fat Red Ant, very TRANSFORMED:

Systematic as I am, I feel obliged to show Mete Sarabi's material that I did not (YET!) use!

Une autre de la part de Lydie!!! Elle me gâte!!!

2007-04-27T15:45:00.001+01:00

"Flessenpost uit Terschelling"

2007-04-27T15:39:00.000+01:00

This was my first envelope—with a real sea star sticked on it—for Christiane Berti in answer to her call for BLEU!

And she answered by this blue sending!

Seems that stockings are still in the picture!

2007-04-27T14:42:00.000+01:00

Another sending to Roland Halbritter for his collection of socks, this time with real stockings around the envelope. The photo on the envelope shows a Jurgi Persoons' creation photographed by Ronald Stoops.
Since I learned from comments Roland formulated on his blog that he is "not a girl's leg fetishist nor a socks fetishist", I dared to send him these stockings that might be considered as more racy!
In return, he sent a pharaonic contribution to my still-not-announced mail_art project HELDINNEN (see http://wimplet-heldinnen.blogspot.com/).

Pasen-Pâques-Easter-Oster-Pascoa-Pessach

2007-04-27T14:37:00.000+01:00

The w.e. before Easter, I was active on mail_art, inspired by YELLOW!

I made three envelopes, one to the arTension magazine and another to the Beaux Arts magazine (hereunder), and the third one to Renee Wagemans (above, but in reality the yellow was much more beautiful than the yellow on the photo!). As I wrote to Renee ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" http://snaillymail.blogspot.com/2007/04/received-from-wimplet.html), I was happy to discover a Dutch woman active in mail_art (and other forms of expression, see her blogs "Words To Go With" and "Woordenspel").

Shoes (no mention of socks or stockings...)

2007-04-22T17:15:00.000+01:00

Shoes sent to Vincenzo Teriaca in Torino (Italia) in reaction on his "shoe gallery" mail_art call for these basic objects!
I used a style recently—and with much fun—developed in my collages.

Art postal et musical venant de la Venelle Offenbach !

2007-04-22T17:07:00.000+01:00

Envoi de Marie-Pierre qui a aussi été contagiée par Lydie !

"Souriez vous etes filmée"!

2007-04-22T16:48:00.000+01:00

... and Lydie came back, this time with a Parisian scene (02/03/07)

Een verdwenen wereld

2007-04-22T16:24:00.000+01:00

Envelope sent 09/03/07 to Raluca Oana Baciu (Romania) in reaction on her mail_art call for "childhood" sendings.
I called my sending "Een verdwenen wereld" ("A vanished world", title of Roman Vishniac's famous book with photos of Jewish life in Eastern Europe at the beginning of the Nazi era).
Baciu asked to write some words about childhood, "first in your native language, then into English. Your text will be published in our school magazine". I wrote that, "in Dutch, my mother tongue, 'a vanished world' is called 'een verdwenen wereld'. For most adults, childhood is a vanished world, 'un monde disparu' (French), 'eine Verschwundene Welt' (German), 'a farshvundene velt' (Yiddish)—'o lume disparuta', in Romanian. For this little Jewish cheder* boy and his friends, kindly smiling and laughing on this photo from 1937-1938, adulthood probably never came, however. Their whole world, inner and outer, vanished when they still were children, and all this was due to the anti-Semitism of the German Nazis, who considered Jews as a separate 'race' and this 'race' was inferior, according to them. This led the Nazis—and their collaborators—to kill, between 1941 to 1945, in what is called the 'Holocaust' or the Shoah, approximately six million Jews, not only adults, but also children (in Romania, some 400,000 according to Matatias Carp - 'Holocaust in Romania. Facts and Documents On The Annihilation of Romania’s Jews 1940-1944', see http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/carp/carp.pdf). This boy came from Vrchni Apsa in Carpatho-Ruthenia, which means, from what is now Hungary, thus very close to Rumania.
The photo I used on the front of this envelope is entitled 'A cheder boy. Vrchni Apsa, Carpatho-Ruthenia', about 1938. © Mara Vishniac Kohn, with the kind authorisation of the International Center of Photography, New York.
* Cheders (or 'heders') are, according to Wikipedia, 'traditional elementary schools or classes teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language.
Cheders were widely spread in Europe before the end of the 18th century. Lessons took place at the teacher's house, who was paid for by the Jewish community or by a group of parents. Normally, only boys would attend classes—girls were educated by their mothers in their homes. Boys of different ages were taught in a single group.
Boys entered cheder school at the age of about 5 years.' (from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheder)"

Premier envoi de mail_art à Lydie, la coupable de ma re-création artpostalière...

2007-03-02T18:07:00.000+01:00

C'est le MERVEILLEUX envoi par Lydie (publié tout en bas) qui m'a donné cette idée de me remettre au mail_art. Manque ici le timbre Espagnol de mon envoi au départ de Gran Canaria, début février.

First sending of mail_art to a "foreigner"

2007-03-02T17:28:00.000+01:00

Mail_art envelope sent to Roland Halbritter, mail_arter collecting socks and stockings mail_art sendings, see http://socks-stockings.blogspot.com/

LE TOUT PREMIER ENVOI D'ART POSTAL vient de LYDIE

2007-03-02T16:44:00.000+01:00