and wimplet continues her mail art: September 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Received from Mary Perly - Canet en Roussillon, France - 30/08/13

Mary thanks me for my Famous-Women mail art (see http://wimplet2.blogspot.de/2013/09/sent-to-mary-perly-canet-en-roussillon_24.html)
She sends a long list of women who have been honoured by her different mail-art senders (see http://www.maryperly.com/pages/Appel_Femmes_celebres-8015233.html).

She also announces her call (without deadline; free technique; maximum size A5) for Proverbs, Sayings, and Quotations.

Mary Perly
122 promenade de la Côte Vermeille
66140 Canet en Roussillon
France

Sent to Mary Perly - Canet en Roussillon, France - 20/07/13

For Mary's call "Femmes célèbres ou qui mériteraient de l'être...", that is, "Women who are famous or who deserve to be so…", I sent a card honouring Malala Yousafzai.

Malala Yousafzai (born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani young woman/girl known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls.

On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus. In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, United Kingdom for intensive rehabilitation. On 12 October, a group of 50 Islamic clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwa against those who tried to kill her, but the Taliban reiterated its intent to kill Yousafzai and her father.

On 12 July 2013, Yousafzai spoke at the UN to call for worldwide access to education (most info from Wikipedia)

Sent to Mimi - Groningen, Netherlands - 27/08/13

From the series

"Created in Cornwall

- Posté à Paris".

Mimi probably doesn't know the meaning of the first syllable of CULTURE that I maintained in my cutting from the French journal Libé...

Received from Mark Greenfield - Newcastle, Staffs., G.B. - 01/09/13

Mark sent me back, in A&A-form, the A&A I sent him recently (see http://wimplet2.blogspot.de/2013/09/sent-to-mark-greenfield-newcastle.html). He did so in my own envelope. He also sends (the photograph of) another A&A, whose previous makers aren't mentioned.
On the back of the A&A, he notes that his PO-Box address ends on 31th August 2013.

Sent to Mark Greenfield - Newcastle, Staffs., G.B. - 06/08/13

Starting with an Add&PassOn received from Jessy Kendall way back in 2007, I added some elements and sent it to Mark Greenfield, who seems to practice Add&PassOn.

Received from Carroll Woods - Menlo Park, CA, U.S. - 30/08/13

Again such an ingenious card from Carroll in which I continue to discover "things"!
On her website http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumpster
diversanonymous, Carroll presents the card herself as a "dumpster mailart collage postcard made with a rescued 1950's travel book British railway map, trashed textbook circulation diagram, coral from a sea-life napkin, and legs and found poetry copied from a 1890's health textbook"...
Normally, I don't represent the address-side with words addressed to me, but here I make an exception because of the -also- wonderful stamps-I didn't check if these are "real" stamps, but they look so! I suppose they are not a result from dumpsterdiving.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Sent to Mary Perly - Canet en Roussillon, France - 03/09/13

From the series "Created in Cornwall - Posté à Paris"

Sent to Karen Wood - Big Bear Lake, CA, U.S. - 03/09/13

From the series "Created in Cornwall - Posté à Paris" -and also an A&A.

Sent to Simon Warren - Tring, G.B.- 03/09/13

From the series "Created in Cornwall - Posté à Paris"

Sent to Carroll Woods - Menlo Park, CA, U.S. - 03/09/13

From the series "Created in Cornwall - Posté à Paris"

Sent to Juliane - Oldenburg, Germany - 04/09/13

from the series "Created in Cornwall - Posté à Paris"

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Received from Ana Marta Austin - Brasilia, Brazil - 24 July 2013

Ana Marta sends the list of participants in her "Jogo pro Universo" "Que o seu desejo se realize", with images of some mail-art sendings she received.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Received from Roland Halbritter - Nüdlingen, Germany - 01/08/13

As always from Roland, comes interesting mail! This time, "interesting" because of his juxtapositions with paintings of Robert Sterl: besides Robert Sterl's work, Roland puts photographs he made of the landscape Robert Sterl represented.
Roland made an exhibiton of this juxtaposition work of which he sends me the catalogue and an original photograph.

The exhibition "Landschaftsimpressionen von Roland Halbritter - Auf den Spuren von Robert Sterl" ("Landscape impressions by/of Roland Halbritter - In the tracks of Robert Sterl" is in the Robert-Sterl-Haus in Struppen (a municipality in the "Sächsische Schweiz", in Saxony, Germany), still until the 1st of October 2013.

Another interesting element in Roland's mail sent by SNAIL -who left a track on the address linking her to Hannah Höch- is the stamp he uses. Coming from Roland, I was suspecting a self-made stamp, but no: this is a "real" German stamp (from 2010). It commemorates the 200th birthday of Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), a poet, with a photo of the artist and some of his lines (in "Niederdeutsch", see below):

Wenn einer dauhn deiht,

wat hei deiht,

denn kann hei nich mihr

dauhn, as hei deiht.

It seems (Retrieved September 2, 2013, from http://rampen-licht.blog.de/2010/12/29/title-10272940/) that this means: "Wenn einer wirklich tut, was er tut, dann kann er nicht mehr tun, als er tut," that is, "When one really does what one does, then one cannot do more than one does."

"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" (Retrieved September 2, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German), I learn (hopefully correct...) that "Plattdüütsch" or "Nedderdüütsch" (in Standard German: "Plattdeutsch" or "Niederdeutsch"; in English: "Low German" or "Low Saxon") is an "Ingvaeonic West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands."

Oh, I find that all so interesting!

And then this rubberstamp from Hannah Höch, the German Dada artist, who made collages and photomantages—and still so many more "interesting" things. Roland is member of her "fan club" (I think that it was also through this membership that FINALLY I discovered that he was the author of two mysterious sendings I received months ago..., see http://wimpletproy.blogspot.fr/2012/12/proy31-received-from-unknown-member-of.html and http://wimpletproy.blogspot.fr/2013/01/proy29-received-from-no-longer-unknown.html).

...but WHY oh why, am I not yet also a member of Hannah Höch's fan club?!...

Received from Carolyn Oord "Kerosene" - Verdun, QC Canada, 01/08/13

Sent to Edna Toffoli - Uberaba, MG, Brazil - 06/08/13 - Add&Pass-On

The journal-page with drawing Add&Pass-On that I received on 01/08/13 from Mete Sarabi went to Edna Toffoli in Brazil with some more journal elements.

Received from Mete Sarabi - Champaign, IL, U.S.- 01/08/13 - Add&Pass-On

I sent this Add&Pass-On (a drawing on a piece from a journal) received from Mete to Edna Toffoli in Brazil.

Received from Mete Sarabi, Champaign, IL, U.S.- 01/08/13

After 6 or 7 years, there is Mete again in my mailbox! I engaged again the contact: some days ago indeed, I sent him an Add&Pass-On. Besides a new Add&Pass-On, Mete sends me now this intriguing drawing! I like very much the combination of the two types of lines.

Received from Patricio "The Celestial Scribe" - Curitiba, PR, Brazil - 02/08/13

Again a WONDERful -and funny: I adore this combination!- mail-art sending from Patricio "The Celestial Scribe" in Patland's City of Peace!

Looking through the work of Hannah Höch (because of Roland Halbritter's sending, see ), I discover that this fantastic woman artist used a similar swimmer for a/the Dada Panorama (see http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhausrath/ci/h%20hoch/pages/E.%20Sources%20for%20Dada%20Pan.htm)