How to get from A to B

Carina has the answer.

And an original print.

Hauho

Carina sent this wonderful envelope and bits and pieces including one of her digital art pieces and some interesting artistamps created by Vizma B.

And look at this amazing guy on the stamp. He is a wooden pauper, which is a carved figure attached to a church wall. There is a slot in his chest for donating money to the poor. This one is found in Hauho, Finland. 

To Finland

A photo in a magazine made up of triangles gave me an idea for something to send to Carina.

Here's another view (there was more inside) and the envelope it was sent in.

In from Finland

Great stuff from Carina arrived in this envelope.

Goodies! Amazing stitching on these pieces.

Sunday Stamps - the northern hemisphere

I always think of cold and ice when I think of north.

Carina sent me a great little booklet in the form of a tiny letter which arrived in this envelope with a superb cold stamp.

Ice fishing from Finland! And of course, in true Posti style, the bottom half of the stamp has a special shape. The stamp celebrates 'Everyman's Rights' to enjoy nature. It is from a set of 6 celebrating this theme in 2016, the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence.

You can see the other stamps here at Posti, the Finnish post office.

For more stamps from the northern half of the world, visit the links at Sunday Stamps.

Banana mail from Carina

The bananas continue to arrive.

Blue chevrons

I sent out a few envelopes with blue chevrons and stamps.

To stripygoose:

To Katerina (where somebody at the post office added the 'To:' for some unknown reason):

And to Carina (along with a collage piece):

Drink Fluxus Milk

Fluxus cow from Carina, in a great homemade envelope, plus outstanding Finnish stamp.

I like how she wrote her return address along the wings of the plane.

100 years of DADA - part 2: the collages

Keeping in the spirit of DADA (I hope) I created collages from found objects, including an abandoned dictionary, a cigarette packet left to rot in the rain, and things in the bottom and side pockets of my backpack.

Here are the results.

An invitation

The 11-year plan

Soaring spirit

Things to do

For the kids

The path home

Two great traditions

In your words

100 years of DADA - part 1: the envelopes.

2016 (or 2015, depending on your definition) is the centenary of the birth of DADA, an anti-art, anti-bourgeoise, anti-establishment movement.

I attended an exhibit of Noah Purifoy's work titled JUNK DADA. I often use catalogs and promotional material to make my envelopes. This time I grabbed two full museum handouts to create 8 envelopes.

The back and front:

The centerfold:

This also includes my final bicycling stamp.

Banana Day

Another Banana Day occurred April 20.

This is what I sent out.

And this is what came in.

First, minions from MomKat.

The next day, this much-delayed banana from MomKat showed up.

stripygoose's banana mail showed up next, forsooth! Even the stamp is banana colored.

The next three arrived on the eve of banana day.

From Dean, a little crumpled.

Here's the smoothed out version.

And the front.

A Browning banana from Linda.

And a yellow banana from Toni.

Perfect timing from TicTac, this one arrived on the big day itself with fantastic faux stamps.

A red banana from Carina showed up a few days later.

Sent in this great envelope - with fun (as always) Finnish postage.

And this last one was posted on April 20 in Brazil, arriving 3 weeks later. Thanks for my first Brazilian mail art, Intransferival!