Stacy

IF YOU GET MAIL ART FROM ME ON A PACKAGE, CHANCES ARE THE POST OFFICE HAS PUT A LABEL ON IT....PLEASE PEEL IT OFF, THERE IS PROBABLY ART UNDERNEATH.

I PREFER HANDMADE POSTCARDS or ENVELOPES...EVEN IF SWAP CALLS FOR STORE BOUGHT. IF YOU HAVE HANDMADE PC'S OR ENVIES GO AHEAD AND SEND THEM!! YOUR ARTWORK INSPIRES ME!

I am 43 years old. I live in the bottom floor apartment of an old victorian home in Waterville, Maine. It's a small city, about an hour's drive to the ocean. We are a hard-working, proud New England community. People describe me as intelligent and positive. I don't always see myself this way! I see myself as being pragmatic, witty, creative, not technically saavy, tolerant, altruistic, insightful.

update When my landlord was considering selling this house a realtor made a video of my apt. It captures who I am. Once you get to the white kitchen with plastic furniture, it's not my apartment anymore. It's the second floor. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB02fuI-58k

Led Zeppelin. Could listen to them all day and never tire of them. Queen. U2. Classic rock. Rap. Country. I am enchanted by Freddie Mercury- watching him perform the song "Under Pressure". Robert Plant. Modern English (I Melt With You).The Stones. Howlin' Wolf, Van Morrison (Into the Mystic is one of the greatest songs-ever), U2 (I Will Follow and Beautiful Day . Cat Stevens (Miles from Nowhere). "Tangarine" by Zeppelin is my all time favorite song ever. A close second is "Beast of Burden" by the Stones. Love to watch Jagger's facial expressions when he sings it! John Lennon-Instant Karma. Are you guys tired of "We all shine on" on your mail art yet?

FAVORITE BOOKS: The Temple of My Familiar (anything by Alice Walker-she wrote The Color Purple). I've read everything she has written, including her short stories, speeches and essays. Dry by Augusten Burroughs. Carl Hiassen's books. Anything by Tom Robbins. Anything by John Irving.

FAVORITIE TV: Queer As Folk, Girls, Impractical Jokers (those are my "boys"), The Big C. Nurse Jackie. Looking. Family Tree. True Detective. (Basically any series on HBO or Showtime). The best thing about Friday is a new episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher". If it weren't for that show I wouldn't get any news at all. Guilty Pleasures....those creepy alien encounter and ghost shows. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives - that's where i get my inspiration to plan my meals for the week, lard and all. I didn't become 250 pounds by accident, folks.

FAVORITE MOVIES: The Bird Cage. Frida. The Song Remains The Same. Magic Mike. Steal This Movie. Breakfast on Jupiter. Brother Where Art Thou. Swingblade. Jarhead. Get Him To the Greek (who DOESN'T think Russell Brand is dreamy, right? Inside and out.). Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies. Django. (anything by Quintan Terantino).

On envelopes coming to me, give a shout out to my mailman VERN! He so enjoys it. His co-workers give him a bunch of crap for it too. He is famous at work. However, when they see me coming, they get a panicked look in their eyes, hoping they don't get me in their line (thanks to swapbot). Vern is the best mail man ever. Always on time. Friendly but not overbearing, you know? He sticks to the protocol. Without protocol it would be chaos.

UPDATE Vern's busted metatarsal has healed! He is back on his route, like nothing ever happened! SO good to SEE you Vern. He's been out ALL Summmmmmer!

MAIL ART. Mixed media. Art Journaling. Making junk journals out of junk mail. Mixed media collage on cavas or a board (whatever I can get my hands on). Altered books.

DECOUPAGE.

Long, meticulous Dislikes Lists. Some folks are soooooo fussy about what is sent to them that I often wonder why they bother swapping at all? Why not take the money and go shop for themselves? Amazon will send them EXACTLY what they ordered-no fuss. No muss!

People that forget to rate me. It's important for me to know that you got my swap. I rate almost as soon as I take a swap out of my mailbox. I also enjoy the luxury of working from home, so that helps.

While co-co puffs aren't my thing, Mail Art IS.

ANATOMY PICTURES

VINTAGE FIRST AID PICTURES

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES

EYEBALLS

RANDOM NUMBERS IN ANY FORM

THE NUMBER 58 IS MY LUCKY NUMBER

black leather plague beak masks with the screened in eyeballs (you know what I mean, right?)

SACRED HEART/CORAZON HEART (WITH FLAMES COMING FROM TOP/RELIGIOUS MADONNA IMAGES aka pictures of or stuff you'd find in your Catholic great-aunt's nightstand drawer or at a flea market in New Mexico.

PICTURES OF FISH (PREFERABLY FRESHWATER, BUT I'M NOT TOO PICKY)

Gift wrap/tissue samples and decorative napkins.

IMAGES....I don't have a printer.

Images from an anatomy text book.

Shriney kind of stuff.

Stencils

Masks (what's cut out of the stencil)

Images of the old cigar shop native americans with head dresses.

Roosters (because ladies, let's face it...size matters).

pineapples

Chickens

wings

goddesses

circus

enchanted woods

stars

the sun

Blank postcards.

small, handmade blank art journals I can fill and send back out into the universe.

Small return address labels with my addy on them. Even if they aren't sticky. Modge Podge is always an option.

Arch shapes.

Altered Art

A small canvas you've created.

collages

assemblage art.

grungy

GIRAFFES

top hats

giraffes with tophats

stuff you'd see dangling from the ceiling or hung on the walls of a gypsy wagon

airmail labels

hearts

moons (the vintage looking ones with faces on them)

brads

Sarcasm.

Stuff that you'd expect to see in Janis Joplin's livingroom or on her tour bus.

Irreverance.

Blank notecards.

Vintage images

THE PATTERNS AND COLORS OF INDIA

bees

flies

FOLK ART, OUTSIDER ART, FOUND ART

Hippies

Woodstock-ish scenes

Protests

Human Rights Propoganda

images of people expressing strong emotions.

Fairies

Led Zeppelin - lyrics from thier songs

eyes

hands

phrenic maps

ANATOMICAL ART

odd tarot cards

occult images

images that make a person go "huh?" or "OMG", maybe brighten the mailmans day or piss him off-whatever!

unique tape (washi tape)

patterned tissue paper

unique patterns or pics on napkins

swirls

squiggles

a quote written in big dramatic swirly handwriting with stars dotting the I's and whatnot.

Hello My Name Is stickers or other stickers with the same amount of blank space to write an address in

cancelled postage

new postage

the round earth $1.10 international stamps

rub-ons (any)

handmade paper

fabric or paper flowers

handpainted papers/ fabric

ephemera

thought provoking text

randomness

interesting junk mail

Frida's Kahlo's art or that style of art

gypsy related stuff

winged things/people

LOVE POLKA-DOTS

corazon hearts

day of the dead stuff

IMAGES OF NUNS/SAINTS

any mexican folkart, loteria cards

Nudity/profanity

I love any image of any kind of pear. It's a maternal shaped fruit. Just like me!

random strips of text

artist stamps - show me yours, i want to learn how to make these!

bumper stickers

postcards

elephants

images stamped onto text or tissue paper with staz-on ink.

Any odd image that has ink on it that will withstand a healthy dose of modge-podge.

anything odd.

crowns

frogs

frogs with crowns

poetry -yours or someone elses

album cover art or concert posters

any free propoganda from a music store or tatoo/head shop

Grateful Dead images

A masterboard you've created.

Prints from a gelli plate.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OFFEND ME WITH ANY TYPE OF MAIL ART. THE MORE BIZARRE THE BETTER, I SAY. I am sorry if my mailart has offended anyone....

My religion is karma. I am a very strong believer in it. It is impossible to miss. I treat others the way I'd like to be treated. I send good out into the cosmos and good generally comes back to me. I pray I will hit the Powerball Jackpot but in the meantime I work really hard to earn a living and I take responsibility for my actions. I am succinct. Genuine. Appreciative. Sarcastic. Dramatic. Irreverant. Articulate. Introspective. I find magic in everyday. I utilize a whole assortment of cognitive tools I've acquired over the years to cope with stuff, like asking myself "what's the worse that can happen?", acceptance, living in this very moment-like RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND, saying I'm sorry, using a third-person perspective to examine an issue I am having. That helps when I am being too hard on myself. Recognizing that most of our character defects are fear-based. Fear makes us do ugly things to each other.Letting go. Staying grateful. Little tools I can't live without. What's in your toolbox?

Please don't worry if you don't have big bucks to spend if you get me as a partner. Trust me...I am just happy to recieve something unique. Send something you'd like to receive. No big deal!! Unique images and paper make me happy. Hand paint some paper. Draw a picture! I try to send something I would love to see in my own mailbox.

Sometimes I will send a little something extra to my partner, usually something I've made and it has served it's purpose for me and it needs to be released into the universe. Please don't get upset with me. I'm not doing it to make you feel guilty because I maybe spent more on postage than you did. I genuinely just need to pass these things along. If you don't want them, PLEASE PLACE THEM IN A PUBLIC PLACE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DISCOVER THEM...a park bench, a table in the library or coffee shop, on a newspaper machine at the trainstation-you get my drift! Or please feel free to pass them on in another swap. Trust me-my feelings won't be hurt.

Under Images on Google Search, type in Traci Bunkers. That's my favorite color. Jewel tones. Reddish-oranges. Warm,deep yellows. Citron yellow which is actually greenish.

FELIPE JESUS CONSALVOS

GREG HANSON-assemblage artist

Traci Bunkers

IF YOU GET MAIL ART FROM ME ON A PACKAGE, CHANCES ARE THE POST OFFICE HAS PUT A LABEL ON IT....PLEASE PEEL IT OFF, THERE IS PROBABLY ART UNDERNEATH.