Ficus Strangulensis (2)

Rotifera are very small animals, living in the pond. And Ficus Strangulensis has seen them in real, and even photographed them!

Here two pictures:



They came in an envelope, of which the back side reminds me of a kind of ficus:





And the rotifera were acoompanied by this plant, growing in Fike's yard:




Thank you very much, Ficus!

Carina (4)

Did I ever tell that Platypus mail art steals my heart?
Carina had the Platypus do so, by sending a wonderful piece of mail art from Finland.



Well, at first sight it was not clear. A brown envelope, showing a mushroom stamp.
And a Robot...



... or not a Robot...



But when I opened the envelope, I saw the beautiful Platypus you see on top!

Also inside, an original piece of great art by Carina, titled 'Roots':



When looking further, there suddenly appeared two cousins, two Monotremes... My favourite Australian mammals!
An other Platypus...



... and the Echidna!



Finally a nice piece of mail art, to which I hope to add something soon because it is missing something, so I can return it to Carina:



Thank you very much, Carina!

Cascadia Artpost (3)

From Cascadia Artpost I received some Peeps, tiny Human beings, before.
Thanks to this new mail art, a photo-diorama sent by Cascadia Artpost, too, it becomes clear to me in what kind of surroundings they live.



Cascadia Artpost and Mail Art Martha organized a Clown Parade mail art project recently. Prefering animals to clowns, I've sent them a Clown fish. I couldn't choose whether to send it to Cascadia Artpost in Cascadia, USA, or to Mail Art Martha in the Queendom of Retailia, UK. So I learned the postman has chosen to bring it to the USA.

Thank you very much, Cascadia Artpost!

Fleur Helsingor (3)

Great collage by Fleur Helsingor showing Birds on a photographed background.
These birds came in an envelope, made out of a photo collage of a nearby café window's display of photos and art.



Fleur also returned my add-and-return, from a serie which I will blog on IUOMA on a later date. Here already a part of it, thanks to the other wonderful Bird:



Thank you very much, Fleur!

Tia Battiston

This unique photo, of a pet we almost all wish to have in our house, has been sent by Tia Battiston.

The Deer came in a wonderful envelope showing more mammals: Monkeys:



And a Bat:



Thank you very much, Tia!

Nico van Hoorn (4) & Jaap-Aap (2)

Jaap-Aap (also known as Jaap-Aapje, Jaap-little-Monkey), here pictured together with Scrat, the famous Saber-toothed Squirrel, and an unknown fellow, is a nice guy from the city of Nijmegen. I think he lives at Nico van Hoorn's place, because Nico, who is a great Nimwegian photographer, is the one who takes pictures of Jaap-Aap, and is the one who has sent me pictures of Jaap-Aap in the past, and now.



Jaap-Aap is a Mammal, similar to the Lion (you see behind Jaap on the picture above, taken at the Kronenburgerpark), and similar to the Human Beings you see below. Nico sent this picture of urban art Humans some months before, and I thought the colour of the crocuses above suit well to the colours of the shielded-men-in-uniform below.



This urban art shows a black page in the history of Nijmegen.



Thank you very much, Nico, hartelijk dank!

Henry Denander

Some time ago I drew a Donkey for Henry's Donkey Mail Art Project, and recently I was surprised by receiving the documentation of his project, a booklet full of these dear animals!

The great booklet arrived in an envelope which I love, too: there are Donkey artistamps and rubberstamp prints!



Thank you very much, Henry!

John (3)

Postcard made by John. He makes great photos and had this card made for Eva's 'La Vache Qui Rit' mail art project, but - lucky me - he had a second copy of this cow card, of which I am the happy receiver.



On the back nice animal stickers and a suitable cow stamp. Although in my country we consider the highlanders as 'wild' cattle, and they are released in natural landscapes to graze and by this manage the flora.

Thank you very much, John!

Nico van Hoorn (3) & Jaap-Aap (1)

Recently I drew the two famous fellows Jaap-Aap and Edmund, and sent it to Jaap-Aap and Nico van Hoorn.
And very soon after, Nico sent me Jaap-Aap's kind reply: a view inside of the Personal Photo Album of Jaap-Aap!



With a nice portrait / whole body picture.



And Jaap-Aap standing in an amazing watery landscape! Fortunately the Bear didn't notice nor ate Jaap-Aap.



Jaap-Aap watched an interesting Bird...



...And did his own laundry!



He also appeared to be an experienced operator of the mixing panel (I was not sure whether Jaap-Aap was mixing sounds or mixing lights, or both, or if he was operating the railway logistics, but after some investigation I found out that Jaap-Aap was making Radio!)



Meanwhile I could enjoy a picture of a pictogram, a person pushing the pedestrian's traffic light button.



And Jaap-Aap started to create Art.

Thank you very much, Jaap-Aap and Nico, hartelijk dank!

Cascadia Artpost (2)

These little fellows are called 'Peeps', but I would label them in this blog as human beings.
Nice photos, and note the artistamp on the backside. Thank you very much, Cascadia Artpost!



The same day this envelope came into my mailbox. Great messages on the rubber stamp prints on the back, don't you all think so?!





Inside an unexpected surprise: a 'Go Green' card! Cascadia Artpost has sent me a 'Go Green' card some time ago. It's an amazing card: within the paper there are seeds, which you can let grow by planting the postcard.
However, the back side of the previous card I considered too beautiful to have it vanish into the soil, so I wanted to keep that card complete.
And now he had sent me a second, almost blank, card! Looking forward to seeing which kind of plants will grow out of this.



Thanks so much, Cascadia Artpost, so thoughtful of yours!

Humberto Miguel Jiménez

A nice surprise from Mexico! This picture of the Damselfly has been created by Humberto Miguel Jiménez.
The Spanish name 'caballito del diablo' literally means 'devil's pony'. In Dutch we call this amazing creature 'Waterjuffer', which means 'Young lady of the water', or 'Señorita del agua' in Spanish.



Also the Mexican Post added a nice Bird sticker to the envelope.

Thank you very much, muchas gracias, Humberto!

Serse Luigetti (2)

Lots of animals in this mail art by Serse Luigetti from Italy. It shows that we have to take care of our world. As apart from the living eggheaded bird below on the right, and the humans on rubberstamp and postage stamp above, from the animals you see below there are only skeletons left...



Grazie mille, Serse, for this interesting mail art!

Micu

Wow, this is a strange animal!
It's Phidippus mystaceus, a tiny spider ('jumping spider') who's just 1 centimeter in size

Thank you very much, Micu!

Micu has a blog about three other nice animals, see here.
And together with Jennie she started a very nice project: Mail a Smile. Such a great idea to send smiles to people who can use them, so if you want to participate: check out Mail a Smile and join!