New Aquarel paints to use
Just bought a large set of aquarel paints (van Gogh) to use for my new drawings. I made the desigh above to test the colouts I have and then started to test the individual colours to see how they look like.
That takes a while, but at the end I have a firm reference to how the colours look like when I want to use them or mix them.
Outgoing Envelopes March 2018
Outgoing envelopes – February 2018
Again an envelope to Ryosuke Cohen in Japan to insure that in return I will get a Brain Cell for the TAM Archive. Last version I received was #1009, so the collection grows and grows
Also two envelopes to Heleen de Vaan with a minimalistic address notation. Will see if they get there. The zipcode should reveil the city (Amstelveen), and the sipcode also reveils that the street is a P.O. Box, and therefore the number 581 should be enough. Will the PostNL be
There Are Always Two Sides – Drawing by Ruud Janssen Feb. 2018
New Visual Poetry by Ruud Janssen – February 2018
The last weeks I have been working in these, and finaly the last additions were made.The small series is now ready. They are scanned and published, and some will go to strange corners of the world for sure. Click on a single work to see it full-size.
Stamping again – Feb 2018
Had to re-ink one of my rubberstamps, and testes the result on a tissue with this as a result.
Brain Cell #1000 from Ryosuke Cohen – Japan
Today a large enveloppe from Ryosuke Cohen (Japan) arrived. In it was the collection of BrainCells #980 till #1000 and with it all namelists of those series. I received before from Ryosuke Cohen such sets. They are very interesting for archives and reearchers, so I am very happy with this wonderful gift from Ryosuke Cohen. He did a wonderful work with this project he started in 1985, and in 2017 the series is alreacy 1000 sheets with messages from the globe.
On the cover is a part of the #1000 Brain Cell. I recognize the stamp prints I sent him, and it feels good to be part of this collection. But the whole project itself is more interesting then the individual cells. So many connections and communications were needed to get this done. Also interesting details on how this started in 1985. Some mail-artists are still alive and kicking. Some are dead and some countries even vanished from the postal systems…….
And the formal 1000th issue arrived a few days later in a seperate enveloppe:
Self-Portrait – December 2017
The Breeding Process – Drawing by Ruud Janssen (nov 2017)
