VISTORY in 4 parts

1) What flows in keeps a fat pig on sandals happy

2) I see boys transplanting toes at bridges, if only the potholes weren’t so typical

3) Much of it was hidden away in watery fields

4) The answer  is rooted in the sequence of events

Another 4 page contribution for Cheryl Penn’s magazine Mail Art makes the World a Town

Another tribute to FRIDA Kahlo

From Gilberte Vermeulen, Belgium

Mail art Makes the World a Town, issue 1

Mail art compilation zine by Cheryl Penn, South Africa

In this first issue contributions from:

Roland Halbritter, PC Tictac, Svenja Wahl, Frieder Speck (Germany)

The Stradas, Morlino Marina, Bruno Cassaglia, Claudio Romeo, Tiziana Baracchi, Fulgor Silvi (Italy)

Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece)

RCBz, J M Bennett, Christine Tarantino, De Villo Sloan, Lisa Iversen, Nancy Bell Scott (USA)

David Dellafiora, Rob Grant (Australia)

Roberto Keppler (Brasil)

Cuan Miles, Lesley Magwood Fraser, Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

Marie Wintzer (Japan)

When the bridge >

From Cheryl Penn, South Africa

Treasures

From Rebecca Guyver, UK

From Alex

Hi, Guido and all bloggers,
Thank you for your invitation and chance to publish my artworks here.
Alexander Limarev

Random words from Taidgh for Guido: CAMEL, DESERT, SAND, SPLASH, DIVE, UNDERWATER, DEEP, SURFACE, FLY, FLOAT

From Taidgh Lynch, Ireland

Thinking once again of Jacques Izoard

Large painted envelope, tribute to the poet from Liege, Belgium
Mailed to Robert Varlez, his closest friend

Fragments of his poetry:

Let’s walk naked in the streets

What they say of blue

will kill the girls

Let’s turn the demolished houses

into boats

Tributes to songs by Billie Holyday

 It’s the mood that I am in, large painted envelope
Mailed to Gianni Simone in Japan

My dream of life is here to stay, large painted envelope
Mailed to Rebecca Guyver, UK

The memory strait

New collection of poems by David Stone, USA ; collages on front and back cover: Guido Vermeulen.
Fragment:

AT LIBERTORE’S

Dedicated to Eric Basso

THERE AMIDST

the summer heat

and storm,

the summit of thirst

first thought crimes

of centuries

pardoned

particles

collided

in the foam

of the evening

draught.

David Stone, 18 July 2012

Magazines on mail art

Issues 16 and 17 from Gianni Simone’s KAIRAN magazine

Mail art makes the world a town, issue 2

Mail art compilation magazine started by Cheryl Penn, South Africa

In issue 2 contributions from:

Roland Halbritter, PC Tictac, Dragan Jukic, Svenja Wahl (Germany)

Yves Maraux (France)

Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

Stephanie Turnbull, Mail Art Martha (UK)

Roberto Scala, Tiziana Baracchi, Mirta Caccaro, Claudio Romeo, Vittore Baroni (Italy)

Katerina Niksoltsou (Greece)

Bifidus Jones, RCBz, David Stone, Angie Cope, Carl T Chew, Arac, Lisa Iversen (USA)

Samuel Montalvetti (Argentina)

Cheryl Penn, Karin Greenwood, Sue Hobbs (South Africa)

We can, but will we dream?

From Cheryl Penn. South Africa

MENHIR VISPO

From Robert Varlez, Belgium

Vive le «FUN, LOVE & ANARCHY»

Idea in a notebook for a large work, fusion of collage (image and text) and ink graphics around the abstract drawing of an octopussy including various -isms that created a misery for mankind, without any distinction, despite differences. A call for more freedon, fun, love, healthy anarchy against all kinds of rules and regulations imposed on us by all these -isms, the new suffocating religions of our times!

The idea came to me in a dream, part in a sleeping condition, part awake.
I made this drawing and notes on July 30, 2012.
Started executing the idea into reality the weekend of August 25-26.
This is the full view of the finished work after 2 days of interaction:

Detail views of the head with text fragments as:
The sword of the nation / Soldiers for operational functions / 10 meat specialities /  Regional work is better for your health / U-Ray

The tentacles, detail view

The tentacles with the major text fragments of this work:
1) Against rules and all kinds of regulations, occupy octopussy wall street
2) Oh my god, long live fun, love and anarchy

The extremities of the tentacles: all the -isms that are jailing us in one way or another!

Ornamental text collages in a DADA sense:
1) The opinions of soya bean shoots trample your dream car
2) Kill Time
3) Foremen from the dawn of humanity till now

Non photographed ornamental remarks are:
4) The definition of the golden age resulted in censorship
5) The continuous wrestling of mankind to acquire models and techniques

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A tribute to Emma Goldman

INFO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emma_goldman.html

IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING, THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL (EG)

DREAM SONGS REVISITED

I continue to explore the Dream Songs by John Berryman, a major and essential poetic work in contemporary American poetry, trying to translate some of his poems in my own visual images.
That book is so rich it makes my head spin but so what!
Here are 4 new creations linked with fragments of the Dream Songs:

 LIFE FRIENDS, IS BORING.

    WE MUST NOT SAY SO
mailed to Cheryl Penn in South Africa

I BROOD UPON YOUR FACE,

THE GEOGRAPHY OF GRIEF

(on the suicide of Sylvia Plath)
Mailed to Taidgh Lynch in Ireland

IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHORT WAR WITH HIS WIFE,

DEEP IN THE MIDDLE, IN SHORT, OF A WAR

HE COULD NOT SAY WHETHER TO SING
Mailed to Giuliana de Fiori in Brasil

I HAVE STRAINED EVERYTHING

EXCEPT MY EARS!
mailed to Fleur Helsingor, USA

WALK SOUTHEAST INTO THE GRASS UNTIL A HUGE BIRD APPEARS

From Theresa Williams, USA

The 4th eye

FOURTH EYE


through a veil of mirrors
fumes as we climbed down to
where headwaters once raced
but found only sand and shells

down from sodden forests
past fish bones etched
in a slab of brittle wood

trees eating the pink wound
in the sky long before it
could begin to bleed

that eye turned inward and
the leather faces squashed
black by time and muck whose
pictures made Freud faint

that crawl space under
the stairs filled with
mouse skulls

we knew the future was
closer now than ever

the dark corner of the cellar
where the world ends



ERIC BASSO
August 23, 2012

HOW TO SNIFF THE SNOW

From Arttower in Germany

HOW TO SNIFF THE SNOW

For Gunter Schwind, aka ARTTOWER

I want to sniff the walk you walk!

Men are pigs, she said

I started singing «I wanna be a dog»
= Cat Stevens before he joined the paradise of Islam

Pigs against Islam, he said

We all have been waiting for the moment
when the heart will melt the stupidity
of -isms and religions; correction: -isms are religions
& tornados and fire forests & the blindness of eyes closed.

When only the snowman remains the unhappy victim of the sun king.

Guido Vermeulen