WTF is a bocksbeutel part 2

Thanks to jean's reminder, I did finally get my bocksbeutel mail art sent off.

WTF is a Bocksbeutel?

Roland has a new mail art call - the theme is Bocksbeutel. The card announcing the call made me laugh.

Details and received submissions are here.

Roland always does an amazing job of documenting his mail art calls - this one is no exception with cool artistamps and a catalog planned at the end. Deadline is 31 Dec 2015.

Bananas, kaleidoscopes, brain cells

 Ryosuke turned one of my banana faux stamps into a rubber-stamp shape in issue 911 of Brain Cell.

Like before, I find the whole sheet fascinating, always seeing something new. And also resisting the urge to turn it into cool envelopes!

Using an envelope that I had leftover from test-printing the one I sent to Roland.

I sent 150 banana life cycle labels in for Ryosuke's next Brain Cell.

Invisible Plagiarized Art

Sent in for 'Invisible Plagiarized Art' run by liketelevisionsnow.

A bit hard to see as it is white on white, but it is the hard backing to the large envelope Roland sent his Malerwinkelhaus material in, so an unwitting collaboration, if you like. It was stamped and addressed on the reverse side.

Bonus link:

Swiss Post has issued a stamp titled Human Surface, which looks and has the texture of human skin. (Image from Linn's).

From the Swiss Post shop:

"Functionally speaking, the skin is the most versatile organ in a human or animal body. Serving as an interface between the internal and external, it protects our bodies from the environment, presents our "face" to the world, and preserves our inner equilibrium. As well as providing a variety of adaptive mechanisms, the skin also plays an important role in our metabolism and in immunology. The Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz is to present an exhibition around this theme at the Swiss pavilion at the Venice Biennale and has also designed this year's stamp (a feature of the event since 2010)."

Envelopes 276 & 277 - rothkos for rebecca & roland

I was searching for something to send Rebecca, and this Rothko envelope jumped out. As it was heading overseaes, I decided to add a few different stamps that, hopefully, have similar colors, rather than my usual habit of adding three of the same stamp.

Likewise, I was looking for something to send Roland to thank him for all his work on the great documentation for the Malerwinkelhaus mail art project.

The remaining Rothko envelopes caught my eye, but I didn't think I had good stamps for them. I finally went through the stamps one by one and I think these vintage seed packets are a great fit.

Malerwinkelhaus

At the end of 2014 I sent in my entries for Roland's mail art project on the Malerwinkelhaus, a famous tourist attraction in the German town of Markt Breit.

Roland put together an amazing booklet that was handed out at the exhibit of the mail art. Great to see some fellow mail artists in the book - Jean, Eric, Eva, Heleen.

Here is the page with mine, and a bonus page.

He also created an artistamp for every piece of mail art he received, and sent one sheet to each participant. My two stamps are on this sheet, and Heleen's also.

And there's more! (Do you feel like you're on a game show?) Roland had a postcard made from one of my pieces. Amazing. 

I sent the card to Marti right at the end of postcard week, stamped with one of my remaining kaleidoscope flower stamps that are favorites of mine.

A big thanks to Jean for pointing this mail art call out to me.