Lil Dave made this mailart for Mini Camel. It took him awhile to perfect the banana. I helped him out with a few of them. He loves bananas and this is his dream – bananas coming from the skies!
Here’s the back of the envelope.
Lil Dave is running for President. Do you give your support?
Lil Dave will probably be making more monkey mailart in the future. Lil Dave would love mailart from you, go to the Contact page to write Lil Dave.
Here’s a great shot of the blue light in Reed Flute Cave in Guilin, China. It was near the beginning of our first RTW trip.
I created these pretty Paisleys for my friend Wroderick who lives in Oregon. I got the inspiration from a label from an apron we bought at Ross.
Here’s a picture of a cactus I shot at the end of the hike at Ice Box Canyon trail at Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas. It’s beautiful hiking out there!
I sent this postcard to the First Postcard project. I found this while traveling and I can’t recall where I picked it up. Pablo Picanté is a Californian burrito bar. It’s always great to find free postcards that you can keep or send to your friends. It’s also great to use postcards by cutting parts of them for your mailart.
I love postcards! I’ve been sending postcards through Postcrossing lately. I would love to receive more for the House of Art wall.
The Secret eXCHANGE is an exhibition in South Korea filled with secrets. The outside of the envelope contains your persona while the inside contains secrets.
The front of my envelope has a glass of wine with a flower in it, a Harajuku Lovers logo, puzzle piece, a bar code, QR code and TOP SECRET written on it.
The back contains a skull that I got from a postcard at CES, QR code, Authorized Personnel ONLY!, We are watching you right NOW!, Secret File #28756 and Please enter your code.
I acted like the envelope was for a Secret Agent. The code is the secret code the Secret Agent must punch in so the envelope can be opened.
What secrets do you have? Send your secret to the exhibition. You still have time – they’re accepting submissions until February 19, 2012.
This is the first House of Art Wall. I borrowed the idea from my friend Andy’s my REAL wall. He posts mailart and postcards that he receives on a wall in his house. He even told me about the adhesive board you see my postcards on. It allows you to stick paper or photos onto the sticky board without any tape. For some reason I could only find it available in England and not in the USA.
The postcards are some I’ve received and a few are ones I have collected during my travels. The postcard on the top left is a postcard that Lil Dave wrote to his dad Big Dave when we were traveling. It’s a picture of a boy holding a monkey in front of the Seashore Temple in Mahabalipuram, India. The next one over is from a Sichuan Opera that we went to in Chengdu, China. The next postcard is from Andy from my REAL wall which contains many pictures of him. The last one in that row is a postcard from a Couchsurfing Spanish couple who stayed with us – it’s from where they live in Spain.
The first postcard in the next row is a friend Raynell who I met on ICQ years ago. She sent me a postcard from her backyard in Waimānalo, Hawaii. I recently reconnected with her on Facebook after finding this postcard when I was packing up my stuff in my old room at my parent’s house. There’s a postcard of the Capuchin Crypt in Rome, Italy that we visited. It’s a creepy, but cool crypt where skeletons and bones are placed as lamps, monks and in patterns. The last postcard in that row is from Keep Writing Postcards project. It’s a homemade postcard that I receive monthly. You can receive the postcards from her Etsy shop.
There’s a few more postcards that I found along my travels. There’s a Salvador Dali postcard from Australia and The Colosseum from Rome, Italy. I like the Dream Bangkok postcard that has a pink trailer on it. This modern hotel has the best free postcards that I’ve ever seen and I’ve been to many hotels traveling around the world for 3 years. There’s also a postcard from the Sydney Underground Film Festival which has a picture of a lady with windows of men in them which reminds me of Dali. The last one is a picture of the Mena House Oberoi in Cairo, Egypt taken in 1920. Joy Loves Adventure is the second homemade postcard I received from the Keep Writing Postcards project.
The washboards are around The House of Art Wall. My fiance Ivan bought the washboard on the right for Christmas. It turned out to be the wrong color and type. The company said he could keep it and then sent the right one which is listed on the left side. Now I have to learn to play it! Ever since I saw a girl playing it in a band on the street in New Orleans, I’ve always wanted one.
I would love to receive a postcard or mailart from you. I’ll send something to you! Go here to contact me with your information.
