A Transformer-Robot-Dinosaur who makes art.

Finally: I combined two great loves of mine, maps and mail.

The world map is above my bed on a board, with pins stuck in to track/represent the pen-pals I have from different places.  Yellow are the pen pals I know [IRL], blue are the pen pals I don’t know [IRL], orange are the post cards I’ve received via PostCrossing, and white is Toronto (where I live).
Around the board are some mail art things: a couple I’ve made, but I’d like it to be all the little things people send me along with their amazing letters.
I also hope this will help me with my geography.  Elija: loves maps; terrible at geography.

Another hand made book! 
“I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, baby.”

The paper is more of the hand made stuff I made from an old algebra book.  The cover is an [Australian] air mail envelope, and hand stamped on the front.  It’s all hand sewn/bound.

Not going to lie, this might be one of the coolest things I’ve made (but I’m bias).

All of my letters.  All of them.

I’ve gone through them all, just looking at post marks right now (also known as “franks”); I picked out twelve really good ones (out of how many, I don’t know, I haven’t actually counted yet).  I’m going to scan them and manipulate them; for several reasons, one of them being I’m designing a tattoo to get before my 25th birthday (the end of the month!).

I’m going to get franked for my 25th.

Also, add to this collection?  My Someone to Write to project needs love.

More printing with dye; these prints done with a similar technique as standard screen printing, but with a dye mixture instead of fabric paint.
The squares started as yellow, and more red dye-paste was added/mixed directly on the screen.
The squares and the envelope were not exposed as the Dinosquid was (last spring), but the design was painted directly onto the screen with a resist, let dry, and then the screen was covered with a thin layer of screen filler.  Once dry, the resist was washed out.  This is not only a great way to create hand-fluid designs, but a way to print without exposing screens (as that’s not always available/an option).  However, this technique is not as long lasting as exposed screens, and the screen filler will erode with power washing/excessive use.