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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

donderdag 12 mei 2011

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS



Intervention on a large mail art envelope, mailed to BAR LE FELLINI in Brussels.
The Fellini bar is a cocktail bar and pool café right in my neighborhood. The bar is decorated with posters of Fellini movies. I didn't see "Juliet of the spirits" (a movie on sexual obsessions, so maybe a bit too controversial). So I decided to make a tribute and mail it to the bar (hihi).
My mail art activities have since the early start been inspired and influenced by what Guy Bleus in Belgium defends as mail art. Do not send mail art only to mail artists, but send mail art to friends, people you know, people you don't know, random mail art. I've picked people blindly from the phonebook. I've put mail art in balloons. I've send mail art to public places; not cultural centers but bars and restaurants, even abroad, like the PARROT bar in Glasgow on the theme of parrots of course. With the current stalking laws my advise is to do this only "once"...
In my mail art database on Belgium I have 250 addresses, maybe 20 of them are mail artists. I'll visit the Fellini bar again with my bro' Dirk who's an excellent pool player and I'm curious to see what they did or did not do with the envelope!

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