Ruud Janssen (9)

Sent by Ruud Janssen from the Netherlands, this awesome artistamp. The artistamp is showing Ruud himself and has been designed by Domenico Ferrara Foria, in honour of the 35th anniversary of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA), which takes place this year! Ruud is the founder of this great network.

The artistamp arrived in this envelope, which is an alibi to post the mail art here: there are animals on it!



Funny detail might be the fact that the snail mail snail and Year of the Dog stamp have been designed by me :-) Always nice to see them travel.
I've sent the original stamps to Ruud Janssen, because he also is curating the TAM rubberstamp archive.


Also in this envelope this bright work of art arrived:



Created by Ruud Janssen. I guess it is named bits and bytes, or some other name?!?

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

Ruud Janssen (8)

Nowadays it seems that many people consider the digital world as the real world. So the time might be ripe to consider computers (and smartphones and so on) as living creatures, too!...?
Anyway, this artwork by Ruud Janssen looks very Human. A good alibi to post it here!

The, er, how shall we name him/her, came in an envelope, decorated by the General-President of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA) himself. Such an honour!



And the front side pretty and interesting as usual. Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

Ruud Janssen (5)

Last year there was a 'Big Draw' event in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, where we had the opportunity to draw after real models. Among them there was Ina, who wore a large green dress, and I drew her a few times. One of these drawings I turned into a postcard, to send out to other mail artists. The title of the drawing is 'What or whom is she staring at?", and I hoped my colleague mail artists would add their ideas to and pass on or returned. And they did!

This addition has been created by Ruud Janssen. He got this Cow stamp from Robert Rocola. Great to see what she is seeing. Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud, for sharing with us!

You can see more additions, by various mail artists, in the 'What or whom is she staring at?'-IUOMA group.