No. 522 - arriving mail art "Thank you for your mail art" from Ben Vautier (France) - well I'm not sure whether this is a portrait of Bismarck, but it is definitely the answer to my letter to Ben asking him for a mail art to my call. So I think it is legitime to post it here. Ben has sent me this nice typical drawing and some of his artcards. Thank you very much.
No. 335 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Keith A. Buchholz (USA) - a postcard is the fifth submission of the conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html). Keith collaged a head inside the pot. Thank you very much. 
No. 334 - arriving mail art "conceptual pot" from Carlos Botana (Spain) - inside his sending with the artistbooklet about octopus he surprised me with the 4th conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html) which came back in a modified way. Here a really funny painting by Carlos. Out of the pot there is a plant crowing with a Bismarck blossom on top. 
No. 325 - arriving mail art from John Held jr. (USA) - some time ago I sent one of the conceptual pot by Takako Saito to John and now he has sent it back to me. The pot has become a funny Bismarck portrait. Inside the letter also a modified Ray Johnson image. Thank you very much.
No. 269 - arriving mail art "Mail Art Tree - Hommage to Otto von Bismarck" from Roberto Formigoni (Italy) - again an over and over decorated envelope full of colour and ideas. Inside lots of stuff (see my other blog) but as well the modified "conceptual pot" by Takako Saito. The pot has become a colourfull tansformation into a christmas tree, with lots of images and drawing from former mail art correspondence of each other. Thank you very much.
No. 268 - arriving mail art "Bismarck Schlachtschiff" from Angela Behrendt (Germany) - it is the first conceptual pot by Takako Saito (which can be seen here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-138-arriving-mail-art-from-takako.html) which came back to me. Here a really funny inpretation because Angela worked out a little boat; inside Takako and Bismarck are sitting close together. The envelope which shows a t-shirt can be regarded as puzzle piece to the mail art I got from Wolfgang Skodd some days ago (see here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/11/no-254-arriving-mail-art-otto-von.html) Thank you very much. 
No. 231 - arriving mail art "art or Bismarck" from John M. Bennett (USA) - John has sent me one of his enigmatical portrait - her a portriat of Bismarck. Inside the envelope some other stuff like little artistbooklets and artcards with his works. Thank you very much. 
No. 226 - arriving mail art "U2 Bismarck" from Elke Grundmann (Germany) - a postcard with an illustration of the map of the Berlin metro station. Thank you very much. 
No. 183a - arriving mail art from Achim Heidemann (Germany) - an extraordinary mail art because Achim, who has sent already one mail art to the call (see here: http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-183-arriving-mail-art-1815-o-vau-be.html) has some new ideas to modify his older mail art. He made some proposals on this envelope which I have to send back to him because it is part of his project. He wants me to sent back as well his Bismarck mail art so that he can modify it to be more critic about the person Bismarck. As far as I understand the symbolic question marks around the Bismarck Portrait in the first status will afterwards turn more into a cross of the 3rd Reich - the swastika. In a way a kind of conceptual art or fluxus. Thank you very much. 
No. 182 - arriving mail art "Gestern noch Luxus heute schon Fluxus" from Uli Grohmann (Germany) - a decorated envelope with obviously a self made postage stamp but together with a real one. Inside the same quotation of Bismarck I got some days ago from Angela Behrendt, here with a beer mug with the face of Bismarck. Thank you very much. 
No. 73 - arriving mail art from Don Boyd (USA) - Don has sent me two of his typical (closed-eyes, I suppose) drawing which got a nice effect because the drawing lines seems to drift apart. Inside he puts as well a fluxus portrait of himself. Thank you very much
