Boo Cartledge recently sent me a message to tell me that she had put up a REAL tree, inspired by my REAL wall in Louiseville, Kentucky. And here it is in all it's glory!

Mary Cartledge is one of my very earliest mailart contributors to this blog, and just recently she sent me a comment from Louisville, Kentucky to tell me that she and her dog Koko had posted up a REAL tree on her blog.



Apparently Koko is delighted to have the new addition in the house and Mary will be adding more postcard leaves to the tree as time goes on.

Looking very closely I spotted one of my postcards in there, so this immediately qualifies as a your REAL wall! There are some other great contributions in there as well, from Dosanko Debbie, David Berube and Dumpsterdiver among the ones I recognise too. Keep em coming Boo!

The original post with these pics is at itsonlyabook.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-real-tree.html

my REAL wall - March 11, 2010 - Art meets mathematics, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

This last month has been absolutely hectic in my REAL wall HQ. Both me and Elena have taken up new courses which have meant that I'm studying web design and she's studying statistics every night, hence why postcard and wall production has fallen through the floor. In addition to this, I decided that, with all my evenings taken up, I had to find more time in the day to fill, so I've taken up Aikido from 6:30-8:00 AM(!), 2 days a week!

In this week's post I have post from some of my REAL life friends Carl, who paid a visit to Berlin and L-Plate and Sana who went to Oxford this week, returning some maths homework for me on a postcard. Mailart on the wall this week comes from Fluxus Dakota (Art Detox 2010) and Super-Aska.

Super-Aska is an Australian artist, whose work is inspired by numbers. Maths and Fractal imagery permeate her pieces. The orange piece on my wall today seems to show the internal structure of an orange, but could also be translated as the plasma fluctuations in a plasma ball. I guess the parallels between nature and maths are illustrated in this case, and often fractal imagery occurs in natural phenomena.

Super-Aska is sending out loads of postcards showing close-ups of her paintings, some of which can be seen on her site. If you want one, why not visit her site and send her an email, and apparently she has something
called a facebook group too. Whatever one of those is...

your REAL wall - Clara Yoon's Postcard towers in Massachusetts, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

I found out about Clara Yoon's Postcard Skyline project a while ago after posting up a thread on the postcrossing forum about postcard displays.

Clara has been collecting postcards for a while and sticking them on her bedrrom wall, initially to make a tower, then decided to go for a whole skyline!

I recently sent her a postcard to add to her wall and got an email back today thanking me for it.

Here's what she says

"Your postcard was lovely and is now proudly nestled amongst the other postcard bricks of my postcard towers!

I'm not going for any particular skyline - just a skyline in general! But I now have over 150 postcards and it's shaping up really well!

I've attached a picture of it as it looks currently and I would be so proud to be up on myrealwall!!!

Thanks again so much for the postcard!! I really appreciate it!!!

- Clara"

Mine is the Maharaja postcard, fourth down, third column from the left in the central tower.

By the looks of things she's going to run out of space on that wall pretty soon. Why not visit her site and give her a hand today!

my REAL wall - 03 March 2010 - Wall of arts, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

It's been a few weeks since I posted on the kitchen REAL wall and since then I paid a visit to Goldhawk Road, the old address to pick up 3 pieces of mail, shown here.

I have never taken it for granted how much effort the readers of this blog go to to send stuff and always appreciate everything that arrives but this morning, looking at this lot I felt a REAL sense of pride and elation.

A year down the line from setting up my REAL wall, and almost every day I get something amazing in the post and all of it is so different and inspiring. As silly as this may sound, puttinga REAL wal up in morning reminds me how cool it is that humans have such great creative ability and capacity for sharing that with others.

It's a tremendous feeling.

Today sees the return of Art Tower and Shivablack, 2 regular mailart contributors, and a set of colour swatches from Sherri Ayers, around which I should base a poem to send back to her.

The beautiful collage with the face and paddles in the bottom left is a new mailartist to the wall, who I have seen around other sites, called L Podob. I love the textures on this piece, it has what I think is a glue layer over it which feels great and the colours merge really well. One to watch for the future I think.

In the top centre is a postcard of @Jason Cullison's from an exhibition he was recently exhibiting at in LA.

At the top right is a postcard from France from Nicolas de La Casiniere. This may be in response to my call for post related to causes, as it is against the wall in Palestine.

The Israeli West Bank barrier is a huge concrete wall built in Israel to seperate Israel from the Palestinian West Bank. I was there 2 years ago, and it is a huge imposing feature, sometimes up to 8m high, with checkpoints all along it. I was interested in taking pics of graffiti there, but the Israeli guards shouted at me for taking pictures, which is a shame as it's full of great protest art.

As Nicolas says, "Some walls are peaceful and full of graphic poetry. Some are not."

Which side of the wall are you on?

Postal love story, originally uploaded by andytgeezer.

This little handmade gem came in from Postmuse congratulating me and Elena on our engagement.

Mr Salt and Ms Pepper are shown here modelling Elena's engagement ring. Awwwww