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Three more to go now.  I thought I'd practice.  It's almost time to begin.

I've always thought I would be able to use the Summer Exhibition list of works as a stimulus for poetry or visual stuff.  Today was a Guido day in that I bought a book in terrible disrepair for 50P that has absolutely beautiful etchings that I know Guido would love, so I guess I'm not surprised by today's result.

Before I started today's Mail art I was looking for some Minxus Lynxus inspiration - I want to send something new that way so looked at random pages in the list book.  I found some words that seemed relevant and then just didn't think anymore.  The result was very definately Guido.  One of the words on the page was Humument.  Don't know if you know Tom Phillips' work but I am a big fan: http://gallery.humument.com/page001-birthday ?

Our family has lost of traditions and participates (works) in all island activities.  Fair day I worked inside amongst the fabrics and my sister, Katy, sold raffle tickets.

So much activity! Beer tasting in the midst of birthday balloons. A coastal scene.

Circa 1976 we were the 'beach babies': Lauren, Becky, Joan and Audrey!

Inspired by conversations about the purity of trash in trashpo and encouraged by DeVillo Sloan to work in my particular intuitive way, I launched into a trashpo book today.  It is a diamond slot and tab book 1/2 A6 size and what you see is two pages, exactly postcard size as a spread. I haven't decided whether to send the book into Theresa Ann's small things, to DK, the queen of Trashpo or to Cheryl Penn who collects boekies.

We found the holes in the fence and wired them shut and sunk the fence in new soil.  I feel very protective of the new birds but haven't managed to name them yet. My sister asked if the fox was cute.

Altering books and playing with through and on in non-mailart stuff and saw an advert in the recycling bin with stars and other shapes that felt like a good starting point.  Cut and glued and tested various scraps behind then added to. Had some running problems with gel glaze but like the speed feel that came about.

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Rivers of gesso and acrylic paint on recycled cereal box. It almost didn't need anything else...and then I found the Man-of-War in my favorite set of Nature Encycopedias and made the packing tape transfer.

This one went off to a jellyfish lover..

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Sometimes I like the backgrounds so much, they don't need any additions. This is extra pieces from painted cereal boxes, sewn together.

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Life is full of direction...

Goopy gesso on recycled cereal box with acrylic paint. "No Crease" drycleaning tag, bend here sticker from my beach sticker, directions for making instant oatmeal. Don't think I'm eating all healthy or anything...I pulled the oatmeal package out of the trash at work.

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Betty the booby is rockin' her new Tiffany's bling at the Club Galapagos....silly...I know...

This is the first "official" asemic painting and it was done for someone, in that group. I say "official" because it has been noted that I use asemics in my work anyway. Actually, I am not sure if it should be a capital A or a small a.