Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Amy Irwen, Minnesota, USA

Wow, this is cute! And Amy noted that she made the image - hand carved stamp from foam. Very cool.  It reminds me of a constellation, the bicycle constellation.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Fleur Helsingor, Oakland, California, USA


This is from one of my long-time Mail Art acquaintances. She found this shop sign on a stroll around Oakland. How perfect for this mail art theme.

Thanks, Fleur.

Carina, Petsmo, Finland

Carina's image of bicycles coming from flying saucers is quite like a cover to a science-fiction novel. Now, who'll write me a story about this? I'm a big Sci-Fi fan.

She uses collage and paint on a firm substrate. Her stamp, on the reverse is a great Suomi Finland Bicycle design!

Thanks, Carina.

Brooke Cooks, Seattle, WA, USA


Brooke sent in an interesting piece. The bicycle appears to be paper craft that's been scanned, then cut out and collaged to a lovely painted substrate.

Thanks, Brooke, for sending your work to the exhibit.

Connie Jean, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA

A scan doesn't do justice to this entry.
The piece is made up of an under part that is textured metallic material. The top is laminated with the collage material within (bad explanation, sorry.) it's held together with little screw/brad closures.
 Very nice, whimsical, too.
 Notice the postage stamp on the piece itself and then on the envelope. I like the skeleton riding the bicycle stamp, too.

Thanks, Connie Jean.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Magda Lagerwerf, Sellingen, The Netherlands

All of the information, address to me, return address, image information, is all on one side of this fine entry. I never think of doing this, but I might in the future.

Notice the postage stamp continues the theme. I love it.

Thanks, Magda.

Antonio Amato, Caserta, Italy

 This arrived in the mail a few days ago - Oh dear. It's quite beat-up.

There's no postage stamp. I"m assuming it got lost along the way. There is a faint cancellation on the reverse and looks like it's 11 May 2015. Could it really have been on it's way that long?
 Inside was a slightly bent postcard.

There was an explanation of the technique used and a couple of bicycle images.

The technique is interesting and I smiled at the caption.

Thanks for the entry, Antonio, and perhaps you can let us know when this started it's journey.