Your Doctor in Mail Art

La consulta del Dr.

2012-02-11T05:09:00.000-08:00

Although at first sight this card not really seems to be mail art, the original backside has been altered*), the subject is 'doctor' and it has been sent by post. So definitely accepted for this YDiMA mail art blog!

'La consulta del Dr.' (the Doctor's consulting room) is a good example for health professionals' practice: add favourite music to the waiting/consultation-room and hospital wards, and patients' health might improve even faster.

(Though lack of nocturnal sleep will undo the health effect, then...)

*) altered first by Eva by putting some white paper and writings on it, then by me because of privacy reasons :-) Hope you won't mind, Eva!)

Moltes gràcies, Eva!

Robin

2011-12-19T13:12:00.000-08:00

Not only doctors can be depicted in mail art, also correspondence from and to someone’s doctor can be turned into mail art.

Robin sent mail art from the USA to his doctors in Germany, to say ‘Thank you’ for a favour they had done for him.
I received these copies of his original mail art for the Your Doctor in Mail Art project:

Concerning the keyboard, one of Robin’s jobs is working in IT in Germany. Part of the job is recycling old hardware. And of course an important goal in life for defective hardware is to be turned into art.

On Robin's blog you can see several works of art, mail art as well as sculptures or jewellery.
Posted hardware can be for instance this postcard or an i-Book [text in German*].

Besides sending hardware, an other ongoing project by Robin is sending money by mail. Depending on the bill, the country and the leniency of the postal service, sometimes it is altered, sometimes laminated to stiffen it. The ‘thank you’ banknote you see above is an example of the latter.

Check Robin's website for updates.

Thanks, messi, vielen Dank, Robin!

[* for non-German speakers, try a combination of for instance Babelfish and Translate-Google to doublecheck, as online translators on their own sometimes provide us of weird translations.]

"E" (3)

2011-11-05T14:14:00.000-07:00

The third Doctor by "E" from Utopia!

Below shows proof of the fact that "E" might be a real doctor himself: I cannot read the text, so this definitely is a Doctor's Handwriting.
Or would it be Utopian language? (Or should I buy new glasses?) Anyone who can read/translate the words below, feel free to write it to me!

"E" has several mail art projects, among them: "Send me your soul", "Is there life before death?", and the Galerie des Mona.
And "E" is working on an immense and good job: bringing together all Brain Cell life forms of Ryosuke Cohen (who issued 804 forms so far).

"E" also is embassador of Utopia, which is very close to our homes (the stamps below proof it's local post).
Maybe we could get the Utopian nationality.

Merci beaucoup, "E"!

Els

2011-10-10T07:33:00.000-07:00

"My doctor is very kind
and even doesn't really
look like a doctor..."

Beautiful drawing made and sent by Els from the Netherlands.

Hartelijk dank, Els, voor deze mooie verrassing!

Postcard (2)

2011-09-10T07:17:00.000-07:00

Although this Mail Art blog is meant for works of postal art created by the senders themselves, some printed postcards just have to be added to this Your-Doctor-in-Mail-Art collection.
Postcrosser Darya sent this great cartoon from Russia. This is exact one of the images I had in mind when I started this mail art project.
I hope Darya won't attend a doctor like this (or this, one other creation by the same cartoonist...). Even though the text не болей means 'don't have a pain!', and Выздоравливай means 'get well!'...

The cartoon has been made by the Russian illustrator Владимир Камаев (Vladimir Kamaev), also known as Soamo.
More cartoons by him you can find here and here.
Kamaev's website is Soamo.ru.

Спасибо, Darya!

"E" (2)

2011-05-28T12:53:00.000-07:00

Although doctors have to make their patients feel comfortable, sometimes the doctor makes you shiver. "E" sent such a doctor two months ago.
And now the colleague reached this blog!

Still I don't know whether this doctor looks so upset because of the patient's diagnosis, or that he just is overworked and wants to keep new patients out.
Or maybe he's just watching 'Thriller', in his spare time.

"E" has two new mail art projects: 'Send me your soul' and 'Is there life before death?'. More information you can find on E's blog.

Merci beaucoup, "E", pour ce médecin singulier!

Postcard

2011-05-15T07:36:00.000-07:00

As an exception on this website I show you a received postcard which wasn't intentioned by the makers as mail art.

This postcard I received from Lidia, and you see a book cover made by Hans Borrebach in 1960. Hans Borrebach (1903-1991) was a versatile artist, as not only an illustrator but also photographer, fashion drawer and cartoonist.
More about his life and work you can read and see on the websites Lambiek.net and Wikipedia (in Dutch language, a short translation you find here).
More book covers/postcards by Hans Borrebach you find here.

The reasons to include this postcard in the Your Doctor in Mail Art project, are the following:
- This was one of the images I had in mind when I started this project, and the image is very apposite,
- This postcard shows Art and this Art is transformed (by Art Unlimited) into a Mail object, so it is Mail Art!
- The sender is an excellent mail artist, see for instance her earlier contribution to YDiMA here.
- On the back side a Real mail art item made by Lidia, this apposite mail art stamp!

Hartelijk dank, Lidia!

"E" (1)

2011-03-01T14:39:00.000-08:00

One of the main things which to my opinion are important when visiting a doctor, is that the doctor not only is capable and has knowledge about all diseases and illnesses, but also that he/she makes you feel comfortable enough to have you tell about the reason of your visit.

"E" from Utopia succeeds in creating a doctor who makes me run away screaming (and who makes me think of that movie which I never want to see anymore because it was too frightening).
At least this doctor's got postal brains, so that's positive!
After all I hope "E" will have had good experiences visiting this doctor.

The backside contains a beautiful stamp of the Ambassade d'Utopia. I guess it must have been one mailman who put a line through this and then wrote the address again. As at this other beautiful work of art the back side was empty.

Merci beaucoup, "E", for this wonderful, wondering (and ominous) doctor!

Guido Vermeulen (2)

2010-10-09T15:34:00.000-07:00

'The doctor's appointment
or in the waiting room of disbelief.'

Again a beautiful, colourful Friour approved ('Friour' hidden-by-Post), envelope by Guido Vermeulen from Belgium.

In the accompanying letter Guido explains that the picture rather is a self portrait - with fear and disbelief - than a portrait of the attending doctor.
With this knowledge, I must confess that the image and accompanying letter cause certain feelings of despair to me.
Doctor's waiting rooms and appointments are places and situations which better can be avoided, but sometimes it simply isn't possible to do so. A reality of the present days (and sleepless nights).
Wishing you good luck, veel sterkte met alles en ik duim voor je dat er snel een goede oplossing komt!

Thank you - dank voor deze mooie bijdrage!

Don't forget to send entries to Guido for his project / call for mail art: All that Jazz!

YDiMA part of exposition 3: more doctors, in life art!

2010-09-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

KNO-arts = otorhinolaryngologist = ear-nose-and-throat doctor.
Thanks a lot, dankjewel, Sander!

'Vrouwtje dokter', female doctor, spontaneously flown from the hand of Bep, thank you, veel dank, Bep!

'Mi médico de cabecera. La vela siempre le acompaña.'
Muchas gracias por este dibujo, Solly!

An unknown artist made this picture of a recognizable scene in the doctor's room. Not that happy Waiting for the syringe to come...
Thank you, Anonymous!

Doctor Who, who does remember this one?!
Thank you, veel dank, Hans!

Inspired by the Real Weird / Existing Odd Animals project, Sofía made this Doctor Lama. Muchas gracias, dankjewel, Sofía!

Inspired by both OneMillionGiraffes and the Existing Odd Animals project, Armin made this Doctor Pablo giraffe.
Dankjewel, Armin!

YDiMA part of exposition 2: Impression

2010-09-05T05:57:00.000-07:00

As mentioned before, the mail art work received before August now is part of an exposition. The location is a company's dining (lunch) room in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the works will be there until half of October 2010.

A selection of the works received later, in August, I attached to a canvas, too: see the smaller one (50x100 cms), above in the middle.

Alas it wasn't possible to hang it next to the other canvases, so it has a bit more 'uncommon' position (afterwards I've hanged the canvas a bit higher - see the picture on top - I hope it still will be there!..).
Though I think that 'uncommon places' also has to do with what mail art is about?!?...

Here a few pictures of a few visitors visiting the exposition last wednesday.
I invited all visitors to draw a doctor, too, and fortunately some of them indeed did. These drawings I'll post in the next message.

The 'work' in the middle contains some explanation about Mail Art, as I noticed that most people never have heard of this dear kind of art.

Also here, below, some more explanation to the visitors about mail art. Maybe some of you recognize the envelope which was sent to me from the headquarter of Andy's Real Wall. (And yes, Andy, I still owe you two pimped photos! They'll come your way one day!)

Finally a running-away-screaming (overworked?) doctor I made many years ago.

Guido Vermeulen

2010-09-02T13:33:00.000-07:00

'Life is fun despite illness and death'

Guido Vermeulen sent a large (Friour approved!) envelope-with-contents which indeed was puzzling to me. Part of his mail art fits in both the Weird Animal project and this Your Doctor in Mail Art project. So, what to choose?
At least the picture above belongs here, with the history of disease pictured as a touching reality. And fortunately on the back side of this piece of mail art Guido wrote the hopeful message that life is fun, despite the negative things life also brings to us.

The more 'Weird Animal' painting you can find on realweirdanimals.blogspot.com. But this one - which is part of the painting - suits here, by the accompanying poem: 'The animals of our dreams don't need doctors'. (Click on the picture to enlarge, and in case you don't read Dutch, use this - already filled out - online translator)

Thank you, hartelijk dank, Guido!

Please note Guido's Network site: friour.multiply.com and his personal blog: guidovermeulen.blogspot.com.

And send mail art in answer to his interesting call for entries (isn't music curing, too?!?):

Olívia Niemeyer Santos

2010-08-30T13:11:00.000-07:00

A real fine art collage Olívia Niemeyer sent from Brazil.

More information about and more (also larger) work by Olívia Niemeyer you can find on her website.

Please note the call for mail art (click to enlarge):

The website of Grupo Antropoantro: antropoantro.blogspot.com.

Muito obrigada, Olívia!

Pais Garcia

2010-08-23T05:05:00.000-07:00

" Doctor ... "

This frightening scene has been sent from Portugal by Pais Garcia.
Computers and internet aren't able to pass on everything through: the yellow paint smells after iodine tincture!

Muito obrigado, Pais!

Petra Dzierzon

2010-08-17T08:54:00.001-07:00

From Germany Petra Dzierzon sent this colourful fibre-tip pen drawing titled 'My doctor is my doctor'.
In real the drawing is even more interesting, as the silver lines (and silver doctor's hair) change colour: depending on the illumination angle from bright lighter-than-white to dark gray.

Vielen Dank, Petra!

Amuldo

2010-08-17T08:37:00.001-07:00

A vividly represented memory Amuldo sent from the Netherlands.

"Never diseased
and then awake
at the intensive care ward
while the doctors' eyes are fixed upon you.
(a recollection)"

Note the brick wall artistamp: 'Leven' means 'life' and 'to live'.

Thanks a lot, hartelijk dank, Amuldo (I hope you recovered well?)!

Amuldo has started an interesting mail art project: 'project 55'. See for more information this website.

Alexander King

2010-08-11T09:54:00.000-07:00

Alexander King sent this unmistakable conversation with Dr. Jones to me from England.

Thanks a lot, Alexander!

TicTac

2010-08-11T09:22:00.000-07:00

After the Doctor at work, the Doctor in action against viruses, it's time to take a closer look to the Doctor in search.
Who has a great and funny eye. Which in real is even more beautiful and obvious than this 2D image!
Thank you very much, herzlichen Dank, muchas gracias, Patrizia!

More mail art from TicTac you can find on the tac-tictac website, and amazing photography is showed on tictac-tictac.
Still you can send her messages in a bottle!

Miranda Vissers

2010-08-09T04:14:00.000-07:00

Miranda Vissers sent this great mixed-media "Art.s" within the Netherlands.

With apt stamps on the envelop.

For not-Dutch-speaking persons it might be interesting to know: the Dutch word 'arts' means 'medical doctor', while the Dutch word for 'art' is 'kunst'.
So in fact the Dutch 'arts' has nothing to do with Art!
Although the former word for medicine is 'geneeskunst', which literally means 'the art of healing'. Nowadays it's called 'geneeskunde', which means 'the knowledge about healing'!..

More work by Miranda you can see here.
And she has an interesting call for mail art: Collecting.

Thanks a lot, hartelijk dank, Miranda!
(Je zult t.z.t. mijn bijdrage voor het 'Collecting' project tegemoet zien, een boeiend onderwerp!)

Update on August 17th, 2010:
Miranda Vissers also has made an interesting series about Anatomy named 'Gray's Anatomy and Beyond': ceramics (click on this link to see some pieces) and collage art:

Miranda, wederom bedankt, en ik schrijf je (per post!).

YDiMA part of exposition

2010-08-07T05:55:00.000-07:00

As mentioned in the very first call for mail art, a selection of the received artwork to Your Doctor in Mail Art will be showed in the Netherlands, in the city Utrecht, as part of an exposition.

In contrary to the message of March 20th, this exposition has been brought forward some months, and is opened already now: from August until half of October 2010, at weekdays at working hours.

For people who are interested to see, please contact me (heleen21artmail at yahoo dot com) for further details.

Giovanni & Renata StraDA DA Ravenna

2010-08-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

Grazie mille, Giovanni & Renata!

THESTRADADAFOUNDATION
CENTER OF SEARCH
CAPPELLONAMUSICPOETRY
WANTED - CHI LI HA VISTI?

Ryosuke Cohen

2010-07-30T17:07:00.001-07:00

This Brain Cell Life Form was sent by Ryosuke Cohen from Japan.
I'm not sure if this large mail art work is meant for the Your Doctor in Mail Art project, but brain cells have something to do with both body and mind, so these important parts of us might be confronted with some physician or psychician one day.

Learn more about the Brain Cell mail art project on this website. For more information about the artist see the website of Ryosuke Cohen.
Ryosuke Cohen has started a new project, Orion Soup, about the beginning and the end of the space. You can put your idea about it on his bulletin board.

Arigato, Ryosuke!

TicTac

2010-07-22T14:43:00.000-07:00

Doctor in action against viruses

They are everywhere, even threatening the art stamp, logo and the envelop!...

Danke schön, Patrizia! With this funny images these dangerous animals seem rather cute and 'bearable'...

Serse Luigetti

2010-07-22T14:27:00.000-07:00

Sent by Serse Luigetti from Italy. Grazie mille!

Serse also sent some postcards, among them this 'Constellation', made in 1984.

More visual poetry by Serse Luigetti you can find on this website. And note his exhibition in the Mobile Online Museum of Contemporary Art.

Keith A. Buchholz

2010-07-15T07:06:00.001-07:00

A young doctor and his small patient sent by Keith A. Buchholz from the U.S.A.

More about Keith Buchholz and Fluxus on his website and Fluxus St. Louis.
Great 3D art work you can find in the FluxMuseum.

Thanks a lot for your entry, Keith!

TicTac

2010-07-04T17:34:00.000-07:00

Doctor At Work

This great 'Doctor at work' collage, covered by a real TicTac mail art envelop, has been sent by PC(TicTac) from Germany.

More art by multitalent TicTac you can find on her websites, among them Clicks and Mail Art.
Don't forget to send her a message in a bottle!

Vielen Dank, muchas gracias, Patrizia!

Teresa Maia

2010-07-04T17:07:00.001-07:00

Muito obrigada, Teresa Maia, for sending this puzzling and colorful drawing/painting!

Snappy

2010-07-03T05:50:00.000-07:00

This collage work of art - 'What's Up Doc?' - has been sent by Snappy from Canada.

More great art work by Snappy you can find here.

Thank you very much, Snappy!

Bernhard Zilling

2010-06-23T05:33:00.000-07:00

This great picture of how a doctor works has been made by Bernhard Zilling from Germany.

More information about and work by the artist and writer Bernhard Zilling you can see on his website.

Vielen Dank, Bernhard!

Eva (2)

2010-06-20T08:12:00.000-07:00

A feeling soms doctors may cause, with or without saying so!?...

Patient: 'What do you mean you are not going to do anything?

Doctor: 'You see, if I do, three things may happen!

1. If you get well, there will be one less patient. And if there are no patients I will be made redundant.

2. If you don't get well, my superiors will find out and will give me the sack.

And 3. If something goes wrong you'll make an official complaint and I'll get sacked.'

Originally drawn by Maikel for the magazine 'El Jueves',

collaged by Eva.

Eva, moltes gràcies segona volta!

Eva

2010-06-16T15:51:00.000-07:00

Both an apple and the Mediterranean diet as a Doctor in order to avoid the doctor!

Moltes gràcies, Eva!

Claudio Grandinetti

2010-06-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

"Fidati del tuo cuore!"

"Trust your heart!" - Sent by Claudio Grandinetti from Italy.

Claudio has added four calls for mail art on the following themes:

The Owl / Il Gufo (deadline 25/08/2010)

Artist Book / Libro d'Artista (no deadline)

Tarots / Tarocchi (no deadline)

Typewriter / Macchina da scrivere (no deadline)

Grazie mille, Claudio!

Evmorfia Ghika Rachouti, Ευμορφία Γκίκα Ραχούτη

2010-06-02T15:37:00.000-07:00

This exceptional work Evmorfia Ghika Rachouti sent from Greece.

The website Evmorfia mentions in her letter is Mail Artevia.
Also the Artevia Mail Art Exhibition is worth a visit.
More mail art by Evmorfia you can see on her website.

Ευχαριστώ πολύ, Ευμορφία!

Panagiota Iliadi, Παναγιώτα Ηλιάδη

2010-06-02T14:39:00.000-07:00

This startling collage Panagiota Iliadi sent from Greece.

Ευχαριστώ πολύ, Παναγιώτα!

Ria Vanden Eynde

2010-05-19T02:22:00.000-07:00

"Diagnosis"

"Doctors"

These excellent paintings were sent by Ria from Belgium.

I think they speak so much for themselves, no more words needed.

On her weblog Painting2Cancers you can find more work which Ria has been painting after two cancers, thyroid and breast (which have been diagnosed 5 resp. 4.5 years ago). Be sure to take a look!

The Dutch weblog is Beelden van 2 kankers.

I'd like to ask your attention for her very interesting mail art call about "Women artists changing bodies": The Body - Nothing Else.

Thanks a lot, hartelijk dank, Ria, voor deze treffende werken!

Lidia

2010-05-17T15:12:00.000-07:00

Een echte Lidia!

"And? What do you think it is?"

This question, asked by the doctor him/herself, will be recognizable for at least Dutch patients.
Thank you, Lidia, hartelijk dank, for this tremendous collage!

More works made and/or spotted by Lidia you can find here.

Wilma Duguay

2010-05-17T14:59:00.000-07:00

"I took a solemn oath

to heal all creatures

in the sea."

More Sea you can see in The Sea Exhibition.

Thank you, Wilma, also thanks for your other beautiful mail art!

José Manuel Figueiredo

2010-05-17T14:28:00.000-07:00

José Manuel Figueiredo sent this mail art work from Portugal.

It might be hard to run fast, while hurrying to an emergency case, with footwear like these.Though no doubt these doctors succeed in reassuring their patients. Note the friendly and caring smile of the lady on the right, and the healthy (green) environment.

More art mail by José Manuel Figueiredo you can find here.

Muito obrigado, José!

Dewi

2010-04-24T02:18:00.000-07:00

Doctor attending to a family member at the emergency ward.

Sketched while keeping the family member company.

Dewi, thanks a lot for these marvellous sketches!

Lindenhof

2010-04-01T15:55:00.000-07:00

The very first contribution to the Your Doctor in Mail Art project comes from Lindenhof, Germany.
The images speak for themselves, although they can be interpreted in many ways! And might the position of the lighthouse on the stamp be part of some mixed feelings concerning doctors, or is it just as it is?

Vielen Dank, Lindenhof!

The website mentioned is http://www.behinder-mich-nicht.de/ .
More mail art collages from Lindenhof you can find searching Lindenhof and mail art.

Address

2010-04-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

What has a giraffe to do with a mail art call about doctors?

In fact not that much, though as a mail artist you might be interested in the One Million Giraffes project by Ola from Norway. You can upload any giraffe at onemilliongiraffes.com, as long as it is self made. And whenever you have an artist's block, you can find new inspiration while watching the various creations made by other people.

I post this Giraffe envelope here also to show you the irl mail address to which you can send Your (image of your) Doctor.

Looking forward to reading / seeing from you!

Call for "Your Doctor in Mail Art"

2010-03-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome to this Mail Art Blog!

Today the mail art project 'Your Doctor in Mail Art' started.

I'm curious to know what you do think and feel about your doctor, and even more curious to see how you translate these into Mail Art!

All entries concerning the aim of this mail art project will be published on this blog, and a selection of the mail art will be part of an exhibition in the Netherlands in a location where doctors have access to, probably October 2010 (for which the deadline is August 17th 2010).

For further questions and for the snail mail address to send your mail art to, please contact me at:
heleen21artmail-at-yahoo.com.

Hope to read and see from you!

Heleen

... Is he/she like this?...

... or makes he/she you feel like this?...

Looking forward to see YOUR ideas, thoughts and feelings, concerning your doctor!