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welcome to the International Union of Mail-Artists. This Blog gives you information and links to all activities undertaken by Ruud Janssen, who started with Mail-Art in 1980 and is still active.

Add and Pass for the MoMa – What is new?

in Add and Pass on, Art, Breda, Digital Art, Digital World, Incoming Mail-Art, Nederland, Netherlands, Outgoing Mail-Art, Ray Johnson, Ruud Janssen, Visual Poetry

Added a hardcopy Bitcoin to this paper and also some traditional values. Symbolic for the new ways for mail-art that old and new are now integrating and we don’t know which way things are heading. Will be funny to find out where this paper will travel too…… And what kind of traces are on it. I left a few of mine and now digitized it. The network will tell if.. Read More

Outgoing to Picasso Gaglione – USA

in Art, Breda, Chaos, IUOMA, Mail-Art, Nederland, Netherlands, Picasso Gaglione, Ruud Janssen, TAM Rubberstamp Archive

I promissed Picasso Gaglione in USA some time ago to send him some prints of found rubberstamps. So this is the first start to keep that promis. As usual a decorated enveloppe and inside some small surprises for Picasso which I won’t spoil to much in this blog.  Just one detail I will show here and that is a part of a few works I stamped for him:

New Aquarel paints to use

in Drawings, Nederland, Netherlands, Ruud Janssen

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 – February 2018

in Breda, IUOMA, IUOMA 30 years, IUOMA stickers, Mail-Art, Nederland, Netherlands, Outgoing Mail-Art, Ruud Janssen, Ryosuke Cohen

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.. Read More