"E" (2)

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

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)

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)

'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!

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

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

'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?!?):