Dean aka Artist in Seine's Blog (990)

Boarding the plane at this very moment, but will it take off?

Katerina, Thank you for the Mail Art and the warning.  I'll be hiding under my bed if anyone else is looking for me.

Amy sets out a very deep concept.  Floating fibers.  You never see them mention on cereal boxes, but they do exist.

    Sorry I got carried away there ... Deep concept, yes you can just see yourself falling into these fluffy pieces of fibers and colours.  I'm sure you will agree.  Lovely indeed.

Thank you Amy.  I am always amazed of what you can do…

So Bifidus Jones won the word project and features on Marie's boekie.  If I only would have known that, I would have returned mine, and Bifidus would have still won.  The photos in this boekie were inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology about the creation of the earth and sky, according to the Book of the Dead.

Thank you Marie, it's nice to blog you. …

Ah Janine is up on the life in Paris, and yes we are all excited about the Hopper show in the Grand Palais which I have already booked my ticket ... for the last day!

   And Janine has included all the Hooper Hopper classic details.  Very enjoyable.

They say that this is the first time that "Nighthawks" has been shown in France.  Except for now on Janine's…

Never say never?  Well that's a horse of a different colour!

Thank you Sue.  I'm sure it will happen one day.

Now let me get this straight.  Flavored water is sent from Italy to Canada, and then the covers are used in Mail Art and sent to France.  And Canada has refused to import Banana flavored water?  What is this world coming to?

Good thing we have Mail Art to stabilise the economies of the world.  Thank you Louise, your laminator, (make in China?) works very well. …

You work hard, you play hard.  Hard is the common denominator.

If only they would have taugh us this in Business School, life might have been a little different.

And the answer was always there, I just couldn't see it.…

Even travelling around the South of France, Martha manages to pull yet another master piece out of the trolley.

Thank you Martha

I must admit it, this one is over my head.  Oh wait maybe that's the anwser?  "Bananas over moustache mailbox."  Yes, that must be it!  Dani, please help, we are all dying to know.

Thank you Dani, and keep that moustache flying

What you see is what you get.  This had me laughing on the floor.  A drawing does say a thousand words ... or messages.  Arrives as is without an envelope.  The Postman now wants Vizma's telephone number!

OH yes, very clever to put two toilet paper rolls together.  Now that's thinking!  Or is it just dirty thoughts?…

This amazing drawing arrived in A3 size, but here you only have a few details.  The part I enjoyed the most.  The Silo, the outhouse, the cornfield (now if they could only talk), the potato planter, and the chicken coop. (Where my rock band practised for endless hours.)  What wonderful memories this brought back.  Thank you Mr. Jones…

Where were you in the 80's?  This question seems to be going around the website quite a bit.  First one must try to remember the 80's, and then try to come up with a return Mail Art reply to Val.  The pressure is on once again.

In the year of HM the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, things are not all cut up to be as one sees on the tele (TV).…

So you say you have never seen a fork ee ping in touch before.  Well you are in for a delightful surprise.  It looks like a spoon only with bar codes on it.  Great went used with eating Greek yogart.

Some daze in Athens.  The Greek stone cold girls.…

Oh yes I remember you.  You were the first skiier that Carina sent me.  And now you are here again with all your friends.  One can never have too many skiiers on Mail Art.   For those of you who did not go the Finnishing school, the cartoon says: "inch by inch they penetrate the valley"  "just quietly…

This surely looks like the outline of the sock I sent Alicia awhile ago. Sock it to ya baby!  Thank you Alicia, I know you had a busy summer, and happy to see you back and sending.

A wonderful painting  and collage from Ana entitled "Sexy Boy".   Ok so maybe I'm missing something here.  Then I realize that actually it's only a two star sexy boy.  Well I'm happy I spotted that in time!  Thank you Ana, and please feel free to tell me I am wrong.…

     OH I like this one.  OK so I took me five times to scan it, and then the scanner started smoking.  Not to worry as I got the snap shot in the end.  

     Something very pleasing about Black & White circles, and this of course reminds me of bar codes.  Well the unstraight kind.  Actually most likely not very easy to do when you think about it.  It's a hit for me.  Thank you Sarah.…

This has to be the best Mail Art I have ever received.  Wait a second, it's my mail art that I sent to Martha !  So let me get this straight.  One receives Mail Art, then makes it better and then sends it back to the person who sent it?  Maybe I should have increased the explosive charges when I had the chance!

    Of course what Martha has done here is to reply to all of my fire questions and statements.  And she did a great job of turning it around and making it funnier.…

Well nothing funny here.  This is a serious piece, and it's mine all mine!  The scan doesn't do it justice, but the frame is a glossy silver paint which brings out the 1.5 million (yes, I counted them) small ink dots.  Ad the string is the thing that brings it all together.  A delight indeed.

And it doesn't stop there, the back;…

As the saying goes; "those who live by the scroll, die by the scroll".  Or is that the needle?  In this case there are no needles, but the ever present paperclip that has no purpose of being there at all.  Yes, deep meaning here of what one is and what one is suppose to do.  (Note to self: Don't write blogs before breakfast.)

An ad for one of the first color…