Dean is making new stories out of old books

[Rebecca Guyver]

Dean's strap line is 'Don't judge Mail Art by its cover'. Dean is taking books off his shelves and turning them into mail art. I know the feeling, that fascination with something for all the wrong reasons - the bag of lettuce with the magenta lettering, the bus to Wimbledon because the tickets have good perforations,  Why not take a perfectly good book that has been read once, wasn't very good and will never be read again and rip it down the spine with a dull exacto?

I like the furled feel of the ripped area. I like the way the books suggest the carriage of a train and the woman has that whiff of 1930s prairie wife.  If he's the last American aristocrat is she his 'project'?  Who is Jesse Nirenberg?  Should I know? And where did he make his furtive mail art?

That's what's great about memories, they are subject to imagination and every story, depending on the person telling it, takes its own trajectory. Why not send me your memory?

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Very funny Angie.  You never miss a beat.  You gals have a nice day now you hear.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Yep, it's for sure now.  You gals are just crazy, and that's all there is to it.

"Gals", my Dad use to use this word all the time.  I think this is my first.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thessaloniki Egg nog or Egg nod?

Please make memory book cover eggs.

Egg the covers in the book for memory.

Book an Egg and Egg a Book and SMILE!

Sending EGG NOD to everyone:

EGG - Gallery of Colors Thessaloniki

February 23, 2013 to April 23, 2013 – Thessaloniki and Aitoliko, GREECE

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Something must be lost in translation here.  Or is MomKat sending out Eggnog to everyone?

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Something must be in the water now a days.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Dean has sent me two more memories. Memories sent me has two more Dean. DEAN sent two memories more has me. ME. Dean has sent two more memories. On the memories blog soon - hoping.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

You might was to change your needle Angie, the record is skipping.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Your mail art project always makes me hum this song, Rebecca:

"Sweet, sweet mem'ries you gave to me,

you can't beat the mem'ries you gave to me...

Take one fresh and tender kiss,
add one stolen night of bliss.
One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy,
memories are made of this...." lalalalala :-)

A Dean "book cover" arrived in Greece, too. Great idea, fantastic fun collages!