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......all of you who have sent me so many Post Cards for my forthcoming Exhibitions in the last week or so.

I'm falling way, way behind in individual acknowledgements which are now becoming almost impossible, so please forgive me for this collective one and THANK YOU/MERCI BEACOUP TO:

Nadia Wendell

Victor Femenias

Fluxus Atelier

Mehrl Bennett

MomKat

Katerina…

Bonjour/Hello!

I've been away for a week or so, and am desperately trying to catch up with all sorts of things, especially to you kind folks who have sent me Post Cards for my Exhibitions in the last few days.

The response to date has been fantastic, in fact so great that this week I can no longer to send individual thank yous, so, just for once (I hope), here is a BIG & COLLECTIVE THANK YOU to:

Tatiana Makarova,

Louise Hiner,

Amy…

I would like to join the trend that involves sending one "Thank you" message to lots of people, so here goes....

THANK YOU to all the people in the List below* who have sent me a Post Card for my forthcoming Exhibitions.

If you HAVE'NT sent me a postcard -- yet -- please do so...on any theme to Val Herman, 1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine, F-11130 Sigean, France, top reach me before 10 April.

So if your name isn't on the list, then please…

Let me introduce you to FlippeR.

I made him from bits and pieces I found on the beach the other day.

Here is FlippeR:

And then the following photos show how I made up this Masterpiece:…

The Lil Red Bag has arrived safely in Sigean.

This morning I took it to a newly opened Contemporary Art Galler. Lil Red Bag had a very good time and some of Lil's adventures are recorded below.

Lil's visit started with a meeting with a painted Sea Monster:

Lil was a bit afraid, so to get her confidence back I introduced Lil to Evy's Big Black Torso…

Bonjour!

This is the third and last episode -- for now -- about my Museum adventures with Polo Mints in the Netherlands.

Just in case you have forgotten what a Polo Mint looks like, here is one:

This episode invovles visits to two Museums -- the Limburgs Museum in Venlo and the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.

First to Venlo, by train,…

Bonjour!

This is the 2nd of 3 installments in the Polo Mint Adventures.

Here's a Polo Mint, just to remind you of what this is all about -- placing a Polo Mint on a work of art in a Museum, and taking a photo of it -- while trying not to get thrown out of the museum (as happend to me in Bilbao and St Jacques de Compostelle.

I visited the…

I stopped smoking (everything, don't ask) on February 1st, 1975.

I was hypnotised, and was told that there would be no side effects.

There was but one -- I became addicted to Polo Mints (what y'all over there call Lifesavers).

Here is a Polo Mint.

I always have a packet of Polo Mints in my pocket.

I realised the hitherto undiscovered…

She, and her husband, John, visited the Galerie Serrencia where Val introduced her to some Sea Monsters, walked around the the old village  -- with Shopping Trolley and Mail Art Display Handbag -- and then went to Chez Val.

After a (very) short sightseeing trip in Oranje, she went to the Intermarché supermarket -- with her Shopping Trolley and a Sea Monster -- and took some photos…

Bonjour !

You might have been wondering as to why I have been posting a seemingly endless series of photos about Beach Art (and my 'collection' or 'zoo' of 200 Sea Monsters) and Driftwood Art. Well, read on, and I will try and explain.…

HELP!!!!

I sent out the call below a few weeks ago, and the response has been very, very disappointing. So disappointing in fact that I’m faced with a non-Exhibition.

So, let me make things easier, and ask you to send me an Envelope. Any Envelope

Forget ‘Summer in Sigean’ – just send me an envelope on the theme of Summer.…

Here I am.

In my Permanent Installation, also known as (AKA) my Studio, AKA 'Val's room at the top of the house'.

Three-and-a-half floors up, where only the cats and I venture.

From deep down below at street level I hear a 'click' that tells me that the mail has arrived at about noon.

I rush down stairs.

The cats follow me -- because they think it's lunch time;

I open the Mail Box, and if I'm very, very lucky I get some IUOMA Mail Art. (If I'm only…

IF 'The pen is mightier than the sword' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu: Or the Conspiracy, 1839),

THEN 'An Envelope is superior to an email.' (Me, 16/09/2010, 17.05 CET

(Discuss with specific relevance to forms of communication in the 21st century; or not)

Regards,

Val(entine Mark Herman)

*and Tomorrow, and the Next Day, etc