Richard Baudet

The message is clear!

Not only one apple a day, but also some mail art a day will keep the doctor away :-)

The beautiful calligraphy - of course by calligraphy master Richard Baudet - arrived in an envelope with a rose and a butterfly, and a hat and a painting by Vincent van Gogh on a stamp.





Thank you, merci beaucoup, Richard!

Cameron Terhune

I am behind in posting on this blog. This pencil drawing and the poems I received in 2015 already, from Cameron Terhune from the United States.
Since 'Your Doctor in Mail Art' has been silent for more than two years, finally it had become January 2018 until this was posted.



Thank you, Cameron, hope you're doing well.

John Edwards

I was delighted to read such a kind message towards one's doctor. Thank you very much, John, for sending me this lovely mail art and sharing your kind words with the world!

Eva (5)

One of the most important things concerning health and disease is 'prevention'. I think that it's always good to eat fruit (see below, as of course: 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'). But also doing healthy things can work as a good health carer. Like playing and/or listening to Music!
Eva probably didn't mean this beautiful envelope for this Your Doctor in Mail Art blog. But I consider it very suitable. Look at the upper concentration of the pianist, and see how happy (and healthy) the giraffe and lion look while being musicians!



As said, also fruits are good for health. Personally, my mood (and by this, the immune system) increases when I have breakfast containing fresh strawberries (so yes, Eva, me gustaría desayunar así!). But also other berries are said to be good for health. If this also is the case regarding coffee...?



Anyway, this beautiful envelope also caused a big smile on my face, and smiling is like laughing... good for health!
So thank you very much, Eva!

Mariana Serban (5)

A very nice drawing of a mail art loving father, made and sent by Mariana Serban from Romania.
Below you see the cardboard box which has contained magnesium/potassium to protect the heart of Mariana's father (who happens to be forty years minus one day older than I am).
Thank you very much, mulțumesc mult, Mariana!

Mariana Serban (4)

Adhesive plaster / bandage for the heart, such a good idea!
Created and sent by Mariana Serban from Romania.
Thank you very much, Mariana!

Mariana Serban (3)

Surprising new mail art from Mariana Serban from Romania: a brand new sterile doctor's glove!
Thank you very much, Mariana!





Dutch (NL) translation: Chirurgische handschoenen van natuurrubber, poedervrij, microtextuur, anatomisch.
Dit product bevat natuurrubber/latex. Dit kan allergie en anafylactische reacties veroorzaken. Alleen gesloten onbeschadigde verpakking gebruiken.

Mariana Serban (2)

About two weeks after her first contribution, Mariana Serban surprised me with this new mail art.
Thank you very much, mulțumesc mult, Mariana!

Alex Vlasiu

Received from Romania, from Alex Vlasiu, this fine drawing.
These pictures of x-rays, they remind me of the radiologist, an unseen and almost unknown doctor.

Thank you very much, mulțumesc mult Alex!

Mariana Serban

Received from Mariana Serban from Romania, this great drawing of a doctor - Selfportrait with cross - and mermaid.
Mulțumesc mult, Mariana!

Fulgor C. Silvi (4)

Received from Fulgor C. Silvi. And yes, I still have to reply, to both Mr. Fulgor and to the - already finished? - Networker Congress - please have a little more patience!..

Fulgor C. Silvi (3)

Very happy to receive the third contribution by Fulgor C. Silvi from Italy.
With two announcements of two congresses: on the stamp below the surgeons' congress which took place last week, and above an implicit invitation to join the (mail art!) Decentralized Networker Congress 2012 which will take place from 2nd to 4th November.



Grazie mille, Fulgor!

Lubomyr Tymkiv

Great stamped Doctor's collage, made and sent by Lubomyr Tymkiv from Ukraine.
Accompanied by this special Fluxus rubber stamp print and some piece to add-to-and-return for the Stamps Heart mail art project.







Thank you very much, Lubomyr!

"E" (4)

Received from "E" from Utopia / France, these rubber stamped doctor's portraits (or patient's portraits?).

Below: I was amazed to see that the French Post managed to find the right place to add their own stamp, between the nice large amount of mail art stamps.



Merci beaucoup, "E"!

Fulgor C. Silvi

Beware of the doctor who did surgery to her....
Received from Fulgor C. Silvi from Italy - grazie mille!

Eva

The best thing to do - to become/stay healthy - is to keep the doctor away.
Eva sent this collage of signs of - what we at home call - 'vitamine bombs' aka 'sport-candies'. And since I received this mail art, I am convinced that Fruits are Doctors, too.

Also the advice on the postage stamps ('don't contaminate/pollute') to provide us with clean air, earth and water, of course is an important one.



Moltse gràcies, Eva!
By the way, did you know that there are many collectors of fruit stickers? See for instance here, here, and a large collection here. And besides of using to make mail art, fruit stickers also can help making pointillistic paintings. Furthermore, the numbers on the stickers are solvable codes.
(Meanwhile fruitstickers are threatened with extinction, er, dissolving.)