Tonipoet (7)

A Bug, Monkey and that poor* Sloth united in this beautiful collage by ToniPoet from the USA.

(* had to walk all by him-/herself, while that other sloth was more fortunate)

On the envelope more animals show up, so to see the Snake and Lizard hardly escaped from the USPS inking seasonal machines!



And a leaded / stained glass like image (Marc Chagall's?),


and on the back side of this paper some other (human) animals: soccer players:


Dancers / twisters:



Last but not least Toni added some money: fluxus bucks!
Great to see how this bank note traveled via several mail artists.




Thank you very much, Toni!

Kerosene (9)

Beautiful artistamps, made by Darlene Altschul, from California, sent to me by Kerosene from Canada!

Besides the Turtles / Tortoises on these stamps she also added this Sea Turtle, probably swum from an encyclopedia:



And some other interesting creatures:



All arrived in this envelope:



Thank you very much, Kerosene!

FinnBadger

Having been born in the Year of the Dragon, I always love to see Dragon mail. Receiving such mail makes my day complete!
FinnBadger created this beautiful one. In real it's even more beautiful, because the lines are shining silver and gold, and of course I love this cobalt blue background.

Gold is also on the postage stamps, issued by the USA post for the Lunar / Chinese New Years.
The scanned images don't show it that clear, but if you look close to the left upper corners of these stamps, maybe you see them: the Rat, the Snake and the Goat.



FinnBadger has some interesting and awesome websites, be sure to take a look at:
- his poems:
Poems found in Morrow
- mail art:
Envelope 100
- alphabets / letters:
A Letter a Week 2014
A Letter a Week 2013

Thank you very much, FinnBadger!

S. Minstrel

More Human Beings, drawn / collaged and sent by S. Minstrel from the USA.





Thinking I am a pacifist, I always consider the use of weapons one of the weirdest things mankind can do...





Not only human but also some nice slices of paper (kind of Paper Snake?!).





So nice to know this piece of mail art has been travelling back and again:



Thank you very much, S. Minstrel!

Kerosene

It's so miraculous (and weird!), the metamorphosis of butterflies.

Received from Kerosene from Canada.

And note so many kinds of animals on the backside: a bird, a human (skull), an other insect (I always wonder why people say 'aah' to butterflies and meanwhile slash these other innocent insects) and on the stamp a snake (whose year is soon to begin!).

Thank you very much, Kerosene!

Kerosene & Flypaper

'La Malaisie est en parte couverte de jungle' - Malaysia is partly covered with jungle.
'... not so long ago', Kerosene adds...
I think deforestation is such a shame and pity (and we all contribute to that, as long as we aren't aware of what we buy, and keep on buying). As biodiversity and all of our 'lungs' suffer from that highly. All rain forests who have gone, are gone for all our lifetimes... Protection and common sense needed!

Thank you so much, Kerosene, for this aware mail art!

Lindenhof

Thanks to the two collage postcards sent by the German artist group Lindenhof a lot of weird animals are added to this project!



Alas some animals are in a real bad position, either stuck to a fly-paper or serving for food...



The great thing about Mail Art, to my opinion, is not only that artists from all over the world meet by sending art to each other, but also that Post itself adds peculiar interesting pieces to the art, for example on this front side of Lindenhof's card:



Vielen Dank, Lindenhof!