SEMA # 47

The SEMA cahiers by Piet Franzen examine the relations between signs and language.
This is already issue 47 including 3 signs and 3 short poems in Dutch


Translation of the first:

Time started
ticking
against the
egg-shell

THE NOSE

Small painted envelope, dedicated to Nicolai GOGOL, mailed to Theresa Williams, USA

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

FLUXUS’ CONJUGATION

Collaboration between Eric Bensidon (France) and GV (Belgium)

Stories from Wuhu City

From Ni Jian Ming, China

My groundhog day

From Rebecca Guyver, UK
Island project doc accompanied by a poem

On fairy tales in clouds and Wordsworth

Mail art letter from Monique Jany, Belgium
in response to my poetry edition FAIRY TALES IN CLOUDS and the link with the Wordsworth poem
«I wandered lonely as a cloud»

Just back from Tokyo

From John Held Jr, on Gutai, Shozo and a mail art meeting in Japan with Ryosuke, Gianni and Eicchi

The sad gardenia

Small painted envelope with collage fragment
Another tributie to Billie Holyday
Mailed to Robert Varlez

On the tendency to multiply everything

From Wolfgang Guenther, Germany

Snail Mail Postcard Letter

From Chris Mannix, USA

ONE COULD IMAGINE

Dear Cheryl,

One could imagine

being caught

in an African time frame

of an ancient dance

between rock and fire

Also

One could imagine

a desert where there was no

desert

And Also

One could imagine

the desert as a beheaded hydrocephalus

waiting with geological patience

for the return of the floods.

Guido Vermeulen

24 September 2012

Une barque sur l’océan / A barge on the ocean

Large new painting, also based on a stunning piano piece by Maurice Ravel, part of Miroirs (Mirrors)

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Large painted mail art envelope I made while listening to the piano piece by Maurice Ravel
Mailed to Dararat Chemnasiri, Belgium

Stardust

Tribute to Louis Armstrong by Cuan Miles, South Africa

Mail art makes the world a town, issue 3

3d issue of the zine developed by Cheryl Penn in South Africa (also cover art)

In this edition contributions from

Katerina Nikoltsou (Greece)
Rosanna Veronesi, Domenico Severino (Italy)
Rebecca Guyver (UK)
Erich Sundermann (Austria)
Aprilia Zank, Patrizia Tictac, Svenja Wahl (Germany)
Bernd Reichert, Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)
PW Kaufmann (Switzerland)
Carina Granlund (Finland)
Torill Elisabeth Larsen (Norway)
Gail Whitter, Theo Nelson (Canada)
Alicia Starr, Claire Dinsmore, John Held Jr, De Villo Sloan, No thi NG,  RCBz (USA)
Samuel Montalvetti, Marcela Peral (Argentina)
Harry Lock, Cheryl Penn (South Africa)
Ying-Chieh Liu (Taiwan)

20 Years of Field Study

From David Dellafiora, Australia

Field Study is a mail art zine to
document an art performance
or intervention you did during the year;
so a real field study of what is going on
in the eternal network
and this for the past 20 years!

To celebrate the occasion
David gives everybody a
rendez-vous at Tate Modern
in London on January 5, 2013
at noon

The drowning of a clown because he refused to look down

From Cheryl Penn, South Africa