Angela Chao
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
On "Snail *": I designed a small logo that says Snail Mail. Inspired by one of my favorite shows "Miamiink".

On "Eye Spy": I used my favorite 1400 pictures. I recieved my digital camera Dec. 2003 on my birthday and take pictures daily. No two photos are the same. Picture include graduation, vacation, July 1st, Mom, flowers and other things I see in my daily life."

Denis Charmot
Marnaz, France
It is with pleasure this I send you my remembrance when I was a baby.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charmot.art

Julie Fina
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
On "Measuring the silo" (1995): A picture snapped, joking around on a horse farm found in Newmarket, Ontario.

On "Mona + Jeanne" (1999): Two friends of mine share one hug.

Angela Genusa
Grand Prairie, Texas, United States of America
http://choppedlivre.blogspot.com

Suzlee Ibrahim
Shah Alam, Malaysia
[Curator's note: Ibrahim is a lecturer from the Fine Art Department, Faculty of Art & Design, at the MARA University of Technology. We thank him both for his entry, and for encouraging his DRW 100 students to enter. Participating in the show were Muhammad Arif B. Abu Hasan, Muhammad Nasiruddin Bin Nordin, Mohd Ahmasaril B. Ahmad, and Khairul Anwar B. Kamal.]

http://www.suzlee.cjb.net

Cordula Kagemann
Bremen, Germany
On "Reminiscence": To reminisce you can look back even blindfolded. Fragments of past times you can find deep back in your memory.

On "Memento": The memento of persons and i[n]cidents fades away. In the fore of your memory you only find traces. You have to dig deeper to get to the substances of past times in the back of your memories.

On "Window": Window — an insight into a different world of beauty found right behind the ordinary — if you dare to take a look!

On all of Kagemann's entries: In collage you have the possibility to combine all kids of materials and that way initiate a kind of unusual encounter. I work with handmade and collected papers, fabrics, ephemera, acrylics and watercolors. I am faszinated (sp) by the materiality of papers and of the possibilities and textures that develop in the process of creating.

http://www.cordulakagemann.de

Ruggero Maggi
Milano, Italy
http://www.ruggeromaggi.it

Darcy Patterson
Vancouver, British Columbia
My work deals with the N. American trend of adopting military devices and aesthetics for private, non-military use. It also purports to ask questions about our apparent de-sensitization to war and violence. Are we becoming immune to images of violence and war? By adapting these devices and aesthetics are we in fact condoning, if not fetishizing violence, war, and militarization?

http://www.darcypatterson.com

Rebecca Reichwald
Tampa, Florida, United States of America
This paint is on old parchment paper which gave it some of the lovely yellows in the background. I'm an art student at USF, majoring in painting.

http://komickat.deviantart.com

Lavona Sheparts
St Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America
Hi Jim is a local magician.

Jesse Strong
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
This piece is one of three in a series created this past winter, hence they are winter scenes. My interest in these scenes was mainly compositional; I wanted to capture the serpentine nature of the river and the way it receded into the background. I was also drawn to [the] way the light reflects off the water and capturing how light changes depending upon time of the day and atmospheric conditions.

Scott Thomas
Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
The Pudgy Postage Pixie: I prefer the term "full figured" or maybe even "Reubenesque"..[.] Didja notice th' ruby in my navel? It's real..[.] Cost me a fortune..[.]

Cathy Willoughby
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
On "Snail's Trail": Snail's trail is a traditional quilt pattern c 1928. I've updated it using my own handpainted fabric, with silver highlights, fused to handmade paper.

Mimi Wohlberg
Merrick, New York, United States of America
My love for the city of Jerusalem inspired this quilted appliqued & headed expression. 3D palm adds dimension to the surface.

Bart Verburg
Arnhem, The Netherlands
http://www.bartverburg.tk/

learned about Calder. One night when Bobby was 19 a drunk driver ran a stop light a terrible wreck happened. Bobby was hurt vert badly. I remember my Dad saying, "He's hurt up real bad." He was in traction in hospital for a long time. I remember seeing him in a all there [?] and straps and he had pins in his head. It made him look like something from a horror show. 8 months later he got out but never the same. He took his own life about 6 mos. later. I miss him.
— J. Lee

[Curator's note: John's four entries are displayed as one image, and his story resides on all four postcards.]

Pablo Wright
Cinncinnati (Canta), Ohio, United States of America
On "Rage against the robot!": Information without wisdom, content without context creates dissonance. Information consumes attention and attention is a finite resource. Noise and propaganda inundate our daily lives. Overwhelmed by ever sharper sound bites/bytes and smaller quanta of meaning we are lulled in to a trance of apathy and inaction. In the eyes of the robot masters we are the product and the fabricator of our mass media. Compliance and consent can be manufactured. We can be sold anything, particularly fear. Corporate mainstream news is bought by governments and corporations and use to promote their agendas without disclosure, making all news suspect.

Rage against the robot!

Pablo Wright
On "K Kool-Aide": K Kool-Aide, the corporate/government line. "Politicial language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." - George Orwell

agitprop n. any for m of systematic manipulation of public opinion to achieve political ends. This combination of political agitation and propaganda is disseminated throughout the media and culture by various agents: official government doctrine/policy, popular culture, literature, film, radio, TV and music.

Will you take the medication you are fed?

http://home.fuse.net/pandp/
http://www.anti-robot.org

Rasfan
Coves, Selangor, Malaysia
http://www.artproject2006.cjb.net
http://www.nalurseni.cjb.net

Schoko Casana Rosso
Berlin, Germany
[Curator's note: Schoko has a mail art call on the theme "My five elements are life, laugh, love, hope and peace And you(rs)?". All must be 10 x 15 cm, deadline is December 31, 2005. "No return, documentation and something to all!"]

Send entries to:

Schoko Casana Rosso
Christian Mildbrandt
Harzer Str. 89
12059 Berlin
Germany