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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 23 december 2010

CAN I BORROW YOUR ROADMAP TO CHILDHOOD?



Intervention on a mail art envelope, mailed to Michael Harford and Lisa Iversen in the USA. Accompanied by this letter:

Brussels, 21 December 2010

"The world is a town in which adult people
are excluded from a roadmap to childhood"

Dear Michael and Lisa,

Thank you both for your contributions to the Jazz and Freedom project.
Michael, I have reduced the original painting on the envelope to fit the size of your project.
The discoloration of the print is NOT intentional. My color ink cartridge was low on ink, that's all!

There is an amazing contradiction in our society: they push children "to grow up" by all means, to be prepared for the adult world, to become "productive adults" in a "competitive world" & then they moan about the loss of creativity, spontaneity & they push you into therapy to find your "inner child".

Another element linked with the painting is my love and admiration for outsider art and the artists belonging to the COBRA movement.
Common sources of inspiration: the art of children, the art of "native cultures" & the art of people labeled as "disabled", or what's the new P.C. term: "physically & mentally challenged people".

I think we are all challenged by the system.
First they "cripple" us and then they blame us "to be crippled".
Find your roadmap back to childhood, you adult morons!!!
I listen to the John Lennon song "crippled inside" to stop the yelling in my head and I realize that I've always been and remained a kid or a curious kitten if you want …

ME-OOW,


Guido
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