Dean aka Artist in Seine's Blog (986)

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…

No these are not Cheryl's fish net stockings!  But rather a clever idea for the fruit bags that the rest of us throw away.  It came in a clear envelope and all the cutout dots dance around when you shake it.  (Note to self: "Shake it" and "fish net stockings" should never be mentioned in the same blog.)

Thank you Cheryl, Fun & very…

And there I was thinking that Val was lost for good to Arty Slides.  What a surprise to see the ole Val back on the beer mat track.  OK so we can't read what it says, but it's a great start.  Are there any non-blondes out there who can read Swedish?

And Val is coming back with a THUD…

My first ever mail art from Jim Sant Amour.  These are his own photographs he took in New York in the MOMA garden.  Now that's a great way to get around the copy rights question.  Thank you Jim, great work, you have inspired me.

What a wonderful name; "Sant Amour".  I wonder how the Americans pronounce…

What a bewitching surprise to put this one out of the mailbox.  Now this is the way to do it.  An envelope without being an envelope.  I must tell Katerina.

To me these look like milk tabs in a clear plastic envelope, but would you open it?

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