Miranda Vissers

This peculiar 'Paasvlinder' - 'Easter Butterfly' collage was made and sent by Miranda Vissers from the Netherlands.

A funny odd animal. Even more weird is the fact that around Easter, the Easter Bunny is carrying around eggs ('Easter Bunny' in Dutch is 'Paashaas', literally 'Easterhare', no bunny!).
So maybe an Easter Butterfly is less weird. After all, unlike the rabbit, the butterfly is an egg laying animal!

Note the Mail Art flowers and leaves: they have been made from 25 cents and 1 gulden (Dutch florin) postage stamps from the pre-Euro era.

More art work by Miranda Vissers you can find here and here, and her contribution to Your Doctor in Mail Art is this beautiful one.

Many thanks, hartelijk dank, Miranda!

Rachel Freeman

This sun enjoying duck is a collage from Rachel Freeman.
More collage art you can find on her website.

Thanks a lot, Rachel, also for your flowers and bookmarks!

Elena Gjorgjievska (2)

Not only beautiful color pencil drawings of Sea horses, also these Birds were made and sent by Elena Gjorgjievska from Macedonia.

What else to say than these birds are beautiful!





Thanks a lot, blagodaram, Elena!

Elena Gjorgjievska (1)

From Macedonia Elena Gjorgjievska sent beautiful color pencil drawings of real weird animals: the Sea Horse!

In fact the sea horse is a fish, though a vertical swimming one. The sea horse has some similarities with other weird animals: like a chameleon he/she can move the eyes independently; like the marsupials, he (!) has a pouch, in which the young sea horses can grow; and like swans, most male and female sea horses stay together for their entire life.



Blagodaram, Elena!

"E"

After receiving a cute Tarsier in black-and-white from Belgium, now a colourful Tarsier has come from Utopia, France.

This beautiful Tarsier has been painted/drawn by "E".

"E" has great mail art blogs:
Sleeplessnesses and Mail Art: Insomnies et Art Postal
Gallery of Mona (Lisa, La Joconde): Galerie des Mona
and of course (the Embassy of) Utopia: Utopia.

Merci beaucoup, "E"!

Fleur Helsingor

This Brown Rockfish and Starfish live in the San Francisco Bay Aquarium in California, USA.

This beautiful designed photograph (with such a special, nice glance of the Rockfish) was made and sent by multi-talent Fleur Helsingor from the USA.
This rockfish doesn't swim around much, she writes: it finds a place on the sea floor ad just hangs out.
In this picture the rockfish is lying on a small ledge, while the starfish has fastened itself to the glass of the tank next to it.

Fleur also made this nice fish 'small graphic' (to which the Oakland post added some rubber stamp print).



At her website there's an interesting list of mail art projects.

Thank you very much, Fleur!

Adamandia Kapsalis

Turquoise is my favorite color, and this weird creature, sent from the USA and drawn by Adamandia Kapsalis happens to be in this beautiful tint!

I never had heard of this Blue Button Chondrophore (Porpita Porpita) before. Wow, it's weird! The Blue Button seems to be a kind of polyp; a colony of these polyps looks like a Jellyfish but isn't!..

Adamandia has a great Mail art project, please look at (and send entries to) the A Fishy Requisite project.




Thanks a lot, Adamandia!