Mailart 365 has moved

Printed twice onto sailcloth and then added to in various ways tomake it mailable. Have you done your island mailart yet? http://cranberryislandmailart.blogspot.co.uk/

I grew up spending holidays in a place called Cranberry Island.  My friend Judith is a ceramicist and she gave me one of her postcards last week.  It reminded me of the pyramids.  On this island in Maine there are lots of runners.  The island is only two miles long... I used to run 8 miles regularly but Gary would run 20.  This summer it's the 6th annual Great Cranberry Island 50K Ultra marathon (organised by Gary).  That's right, they run up and down the island lots of times. Lauren and I rode bikes alongside Gary on his first marathon. Lauren and Ken went to the pyramids and visited me in Kenya when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer where there were views like this.

BLIND! The backs of my mailart ready for posting made into a mailart.

Thinking of De Villo Sloan's Vispo book pages as I created the framed collage trial for the year 9 group.  The photo I altered is a cropped version of the original. the WW1 letters are a nod to De Villo. I am attempting to create my own visual poetry in response to Birdsong. The poppy appeared because the collaged map had a line that reminded me of a poppy's edge.

Before I had been to England or knew anyone English i knew about marmalade and I knew it was bitter and that I wasn't a big fan.  When I adopted England as my home I tried (unsucessfully) to like it. My husband and one of my children love it.  I am always perplexed at the grocery store about whether to get the thin or thick cut.

I remember NY street parties in the 70s with ethnic food and parades of people.  The English version, at least in the villages around us, is something different.  And I have learned to bake a respectable sponge.

I read a philosophical opinion in the New York Times today called 'On Modern Time' http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/on-modern-time/  'Aesthetic experience... pulls us beyond our normal subjection to temporal sequentiality... lost' I think I need a bit of that at the start of 2012!

Send to  the Mail Art Call, titled " Little Big Stories - Big Stories on Small Paper ", the Exhibition will take place in Pimlico library in London, UK, for 2 weeks, and will start on March 2011. The organization has the idea to produce a book of all the stories which will go on the shelves of Pimlico library, but this isn't yet confirmed.

(see my preview post 12# with the envelope to this Call)

http://artinthemail.blogspot.com/2011/02/7-6-seasons.html