Fabio Sassi, Bologna Italy

Fabio Sassi, 2008

spray paint, stencil/resist & rubber stamp
4 1/4" x 5 3/4"

au verso

John M. Bennett, Columbus OH, USA

Received this envelop with a marker sketch on the front, containing some destroyed buildings, cityscapes and text. The visual poem is a wonderful piece that has the effect of strobing vivid images of the urban environment in my mind.

Try repeat reading 3 to 5 times

collaboration, 2008
John M. Bennett and Sheila E. Murphy

collaboration, 04/23/2008
John M. Bennett and Musicmaster


John M. Bennett, 2008

Collaborator links:

Sheila E. Murphy, visual poet: Wikipedia

John Held Jr., San Francisco, California USA

Received this wonderful rubber stamped envelop filled with goodies today. Some ATCs, an archival document of "Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean" 2001, and a sheet of artistamps that I am seriously considering adding to and sending them out affixed to M.o.D replies.

It's been a very long time since I could actually get away from my work at the Post Office, but last vacation I took some eons ago was to Fluxus Island in Décollage Ocean. Fishing and swimming was great off of Ginger Island, you just had to look out for ubu sharks!
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

ATCs:

top: Tim Mancusi
bottom: John Held Jr.

Artistamp: John Held Jr. 2008
oil pastel & crayon on postage paper
11" x 8 1/2"

REFERENCE:

Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean: A Korean Travel Diary, John Held Jr. Jeju Travel Diary

Mail Art Island in Brain Cell Ocean: A Korean Travel Diary: John Held Jr. Part II

Reproduction: Nam June Paik, "Décollage 4/63", 1963

Reply to Homeless Man

Sometimes I go too far, but too far isn't far enough ...sometimes!
- Mr. Sparrow, Postmaster General M.o.D.

never odd or even, 2008
india ink, rubber stamp & collage
4" x 6"

Portraits from Destructon: Freight Yards

An unnamed homeless man of Destructon sends his thoughts:

Roxanne Clark, Louisville KY, 2008
acrylic paint and collage
4" x 6"

Au verso:
" Some find themselves running away from things ...others are running towards something ...know what I mean? I don't think there's anywhere to run ..."

His hopeless situation is closed with the expletive, "Got any CRPs*?"


*CRPs (Civilian Ration Packets): government controlled nutrient enriched food supplements that are obtained with a prescription from a certified nutritionist of Destructon.

Portraits from Destructon: Freight Yards

Roxanne Clark, Louisville KY, 2008
acrylic and collage
4" x 6"

Au verso:
"Sometimes you just get to the point where you say; Screw IT! I Just want to be numb!"
-Sarah T.

Petrofect Deep Sea Mining Islands

india ink and watercolour

dims: 4" x 11"
after Nagasawa Rosetsu, 'Landscape & Chinese Figures'

india ink and watercolour

dims: 4" x 11"
influence: Sesson Shukei (orig. Satake Heizo) (1504-1589)

Origin of the idea ....

This one was made with a series of similar postcards back in 1998, most of which have been mail out somewhere. It's notated on the back "Tales from the Metropolis of Destructon: The Approach". It got me doing these drawings again and I completed a much larger one that had been sitting around incomplete for 10 years with two others. I'm working on them currently.

india ink & watercolour on matt board
Dims: 11" x 4"

The Approach '98
The Petrofect Islands . These deep sea mining outposts tap into rich fossil and mineral deposits globally like the massive sulphide deposits near "black smokers" that spew 350-degree Celsius water into the frigid deep-sea environment that support strange marine organisms.