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woensdag 22 juni 2011

MAGIC DRIFTWOOD SNAKE





A beautiful object made of dritwood, received from Kathleen Mc Kindles, USA.
I liberated the wooden snake in my gaden and guess what, it came alive and traveled in the garden. Thank you for the magic Kathleen!

LE SERPENT DE URSEL



Photo from an art work by Laurent d'Ursel, Belgium. A gift to support this project.

RAINBOW SNAKE IN PINK DREAMTIME



Original painting I put in the book "messages from the rainforest" I mailed to Cheryl Penn in South Africa

zondag 19 juni 2011

THE SNAKE AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE



Small painted envelope by Guido Vermeulen, mailed to Henning Mittendorf in Germany to announce the creation of this blog.

vrijdag 17 juni 2011

SNAKE OBJECT



From Emilio Carrasco Gutierrez, Mexico. One of the highlights in the contributions.

MUSICAL SNAKE EGG



From Alexis Benalcazar, Panama

POWER !!!



From Marta Bosch, Spain, a marvelous set of 3 handpainted stones

GOOD LUCK!



From Tartarugo, Spain

LET THERE BE LIGHT



From Paul Vigo, Spain

THE LADY AND THE SNAKE



From Manuel Ruiz Ruiz, Spain

SNAKES FOR AMNESTY, AMNESTY FOR SNAKES



From Cesar Reglero, Spain

LE VOYAGE VERS LA FIN DU MONDE



From Antonio Orihuela, Spain (also based on Aboriginal culture, Australia)

GOLD STONE SNAKE



From Bartosz Fraczek, Poland

HAND SNAKE MEMORY



From Dmitry Babenko, Russia

BABY SNAKES



From Dmitry Babenko, Russia

SNAKE VISPO



From Dmitry Babenko, Russia

PRO LA VENTA POETRY # 100



Contributed by Evrika! Junglle, Russia

GOGOGO SNAKE



Contributions from Sasha Surikov, Russia

SNAKE PERFORMANCES




Contributions from Peter Alpar, Romania

SNAKE ECOLOGY



Funny contribution from Ovidiu Petca, Romania

donderdag 16 juni 2011

FLYING SNAKE



A drawing from Keiichi Nakamura, Japan, surprised me with this gift, I was so used to his collages or minimal drawings, this is quite elaborated, but like a kid would do it, the way I like drawings, Cobra style, I suppose Keiichi meant this exactly!

SNAKE AS STREET MUSEUM OF TOKYO IN 1999



Postcard contribution from Eiichi Matsuhashi, Japan

EVERYTHING HAS TO DO WITH YOUR OWN ATTITUDE, YOUR OWN WAY OF THINKING, YOUR OWN MOTIVATION



Print on textile, glued on a card, attached with a snake rope
A great piece from the artist Barbara Bailey in New Zealand.

UNCHAINED AS A SNAKE



Postcard contribution from Zlatko Krstevski, Macedonia.

ZUT, LE SERPENT EST PARTI



Drawings and a poem in French from Renee Bouws, The Netherlands.
Self portrait of Renee as a snake. I knew Renee before mail art and published some of her drawings in the Belgian art zine Kitoko.

A SNAKE C.V.



A collage of 3 postcards mailed by Renate Carelse, The Netherlands.

SNAKE STONE DECORATION FOR GUIDO



Contributed by Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands, painted stone.
Thank you Marlies, this is the only decoration I want to wear in my life.
See also teaching stones and Tatjana Neuber.

DE KOP VAN DE SLANG



Postcard art contribution from Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands

EEN STIL PLEKJE WAAR IK EVEN KAN GAAN LIGGEN EN DAN SPEEL IK IN MIJN HOOFD



From Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands
Mail art like I like it: drawing & painting on a newspaper, cut up text fragments to jump to a higher level of meaning and understanding and perception

OPGESTOKEN KRAGEN



Photo of an installation by Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands

THE PRINT OF THE SNAKE IS A SIGN



Drawing by Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands, part of a long personal letter

MORE SNAKE ENVELOPES




From Marlies Mulders, The Netherlands

GILGAMESJ






Art, text and envelope from Marcel Herms, The Netherlands, based on the Gilgamesj epos.

SNAKE IN MOURNING DURING THE BIRD FESTIVAL




Etchings from Henk Van Setten, The Netherlands, also a great artist that passed away...

A SNAKE STAMP FOR GUIDO



A stamp Annemiek made for my project and that I'm still using today!
From Annemiek Bibbe, The Netherlands

EAST versus WEST



Different perception in different cultures:
Christian, snake = seducer
Eastern, snake = force of creation
Forwarded by Annemiek Bibbe, The Netherlands

SNAKE INFO



Documents on snake myths as the seven headed snake, Ouroboros, Medusa and interconnected snakes; forwarded by Annemiek Bibbe, The Netherlands

ANDREA'S SNAKE HIDES in a copy of an etching



From Andrea Neumann, The Netherlands, a dispatch act from Annemiek Bibbe.

SLANGENWARTAAL




Contributions from Sugar Irmer, Germany.
The photo remains fascinating, even after 12 years of more snake detoriation.