I tried to send a nice crossection of work in for the SURREALISM - Mail Art 2009! mail art call. The Modesto Art Museum is a great place that has been doing mail art exhibitions for a while now. It's close enough that I may actually be able to attend the exhibition, which will be held at the Modesto Art Museum in Modesto, CA from March 2 - March 28, 2009.

I took a walk around my home and made this collage with the trash I found. A very nice, very interesting way to create art while cleaning up your neighborhood. I like it. Sent in for the Merzwalk08 mail art call. Exhibition in January 2009, location TBD.

A picture of a bark scorpion at my home that I digitally altered and submitted for the Insects and Flowers mail art call. An exhibition will take place at the house of the insects of the Office pour l'Information Entomologique (OPIE) in Guyancourt, France, on June 1, 2008.

An donation to the International Museum of Collage and Construction. They are actively seeking additions to their collection.

My contribution for the international copy art exhibition on the theme: "The Body". Exhibition to be held at the National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires in Junin, Argentina in 2009, with other exhibitions to be held in Brazil and Chile.

An age old question sent to Wacky Stuff for his Big Questions mail art call.

Front and back of the envelope sent in for the for the Berube Bugs mail art call. The envelope is decorated with my first few linocuts - a gulper eel, an angler fish, and the word dada. I really enjoy doing linocuts, so more are to come.

A photograph of an interesting still life discovered on my sister-in-law's sink along with a humorously collaged postcard sent in for the Mailmania III mail art call. Exhibitions to be held at Studio J, Victoria, BC, from September 18-27, 2008, and the Slide Room Gallery at the Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC, from Jan 11- 4 Feb 2009.

I'm revisiting an old idea of mine that I really enjoy - the autopoem. It's essentially a randomly generated poem, allthough there is a bit more to it than that. Read the first page for a more detailed description. This was for the Poetry and Stamp Art call.

One of a series of postcards that I made using pieces of my old blankie, with applied messages and phrases in glue and glitter. This one is one of my favorites. It's for the Postcard Readings mail art call. Artwork will be exhibited in 3 separate venues in October 2008, presumably somewhere in Canada.

My contribution to the Trains, Travels and Wagons mail art call.

My contribution to the Typewriter mail art call. Exhibition to be held in the Village of Guzzardi, San Demetrio Corone, Italy, on August 24, 2008.

Four postcards for the mail art project "Thumb!". The project is part of a creative art student's thesis project. An exhibition will be held July 25-27 at the Kernville Odd Fellows Hall in Kernville, CA.

An assemblage for the "Intimate Artifacts" art exhibit at the Catharine S. Eberly center for Women Art Gallery at the University of Toledo, OH from April 3rd - May 2nd, 2008. This assemblage is made from a carved piece of manzanita wood made to resemble a bone, and braided shreds of a quilt that my grandmother made for me. It is a tribute to my grandmother. The wooden bone hangs down 5 feet from the braided quilt.

Art piece for a themeless mail art exhibition to be held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in early April.

Two postcards for the ongoing mail art exhibition "Darts!" at the Balu Music and Bar in Neuötting, Germany. Exhibition organized by the Balu Bears Dart Club.

Art piece for a mail art presentation on the theme "I am" to be held at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland. Date TBD.

Contributions to the "International Bookmarker Art show" to be held at the Plainsboro Public Library in Plainsboro, New Jersey, from July 7 - August 4, 2008, as part of the Cultural Crossroads arts festival. The bookmarks I've made are actually shreds of my childhood quilt applied to card stock and then 'enhanced' with acrylic paints that add an opalescent and/or golden shimmer to them.

Art for the mail art exhibition "Les arts à Tantimont" to be held at the postal agencies of areas 54, 74 and 88 in France from June to November 2008. I did the photography and modification in photoshop, but my two year old daughter is the one who actually arrainged these two collages. One is a collage of bandaids that she made on her chair when she was supposed to be napping; the other is a collage that she made on the toilet seat when I was distracted. On both occassions she came to get me afterwards and told me that she made some art - so it was intended as such.

Art piece for the mail art exhibition 'Sacredness of the Wildlife' to be held at the Hellenic Pagan Festival "Olympieia" in Athens, Greece in April 19-20, 2008. The term "pop off" is included in the collage and also refers to extinction, thus tying in with the dinosaur and irish elk in the collage.

This piece of art is for the exhibition "Your Documents Please". The exhibition will feature faux security documents from artists around the world. My contribution was created with a portion of my childhood blanket as a backdrop, thus incorporating my security blanket into my security document. The piece is also coated in gold and pearl iridescent paint so that it has a holographic appearance that can't be seen in the photo. This is a travelling exhibition that will be held first at the The Museum of Arts & Crafts-ITAMI in Japan from April 4-20, 2008, then ZAIM, in Yokohama, Japan from August 2-17, 2008, then the 2B Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, in November - December 2008, then at the Galerie Kurt im Hirsch in Berlin, Germany in January 2009, followed by the GALÉRIA Z in Bratislava, Slovakia, in February 2009, and lastly the Galería Ajolote Arte Contemporáneo in Guadalajara, Mexico, from April 17 - May 8, 2009. More exhibitions may be added in the future.

Postcards for the mail art exhibition 'Green Eyes' to be held at The Florean Museum in Maramures, Romania, April 20 - May 20, 2008.

Postcard for a mail art project with the theme 'Beetles'. An exhibition is to be held at the University of Brasília at a date TBD.

Two postcards for a mail art project called 'Tea Time!'. An exhibition is to be held at Carytown Teas in Richmond, Virginia in March 2008.

'A to Z' is the theme of this mail art project centered around letters of the alphabet. An exhibition is to be held in Gradignan, France in June 2008.

This mail art project's theme is 'The Carnival'. The instructions said to send "the transformation of your face into a mask". The instructions were translated to English from Italian, and I'm not entirely sure that I did what they were expecting. Nonetheless, I thought my face made a pretty comical mask. I'm fairly certain someone will have a good time with it. An exhibition was held during the Carnevale dei Ragazzi in S. Eraclio, Italy, February 03-10, 2008.

This mail art project had a theme of Doors and Passages. If you can't tell, the pictures are of the passages exiting my toilet and bathtub. There are to be exhibitions held throughout the Vernoux region of France during 2008.

Erotic themed mail art exhibition to be held in the art gallery “La Caverna” in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina in September 2008. The basis for this postcard was the fact that I had an old engineering magazine that actually used the phrase 'pulsating vibrators' in a non-sexual way. I didn't think it was possible.

The theme of this mail art call was 'The Myraid Manifestations of Mail Art'. Exhibition to be held at the Niagara County Community College Art Gallery from March 18 - April 18, 2008.

Venezuela's First International Small Art Biennale. I forgot to scan or take a picture of this art work. Hopefully it will be up on the official webpage soon and then I'll post their picture. Exhibition to be held in Maracay, Venezuela some time in 2008.