Mail to Ryosuke Cohen – Japan
Outgoing to Nico van Hoorn – Netherlands
Nico van Hoorn wrote me a letter last summer 2016 that he will stop with mail-art now. That is always a choice, just not to send out letters anymore. But somehow I wanted to answer him with a letter, so maybe also a last letter to him? Not sure. As long as the P.O. Box is open we are able to send. Will communicate with him through Facebook probably. Nico always makes such fantastic photos.
More outgoing September 2016
Two more envelopes I made this month and will go out today, the last day of September 2016. On the envelopes the college of words with foam stamps and added the new IUOMA logo designed by Heleen de Vaan in Netherlands. IUOMA will be 30 years old in 2018. Not that far away anymore.
Mail to Heleen de Vaan – Netherlands
Outgoing enveloppe to Heleen de Vaan in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The photo above shows how the backside looks. The stickers indicate the city the enveloppe is supposed to go to. On the other side only the zipcode is mentioned, so that should work. With Mail-Art you should involve a little play for the postal workers too. In the Netherlands they mostly seem to like it. It also ‘breaks’ the day with all those standard enveloppes they have to deal with.
This is the front side of the envelope. Heleen designed a first logo for IUOMA in 2018, when it will be 30 years old. I thought it would be funny to use the older postage stamps of the 25 years celebration (designed by Litsa Spathi) on the envelope for real postage. That makes it a collectors item for sure.
The logo itself is somehow related to the Fluxus logo’s. Also a good idea, since the whole IUOMA is actually the result of a succesfull Fluxus Word play that brought this word, that is now living its own life. Hope the envelope arrives safe. It is going out today in the last september days.
Mail to Ryosuke Cohen – Japan
