Mail Received - Dean Marks

[xx Jones]

Some time ago Dean and I had a discussion about a particular type of vintage tourist postcards, where an image of the place is placed within the letters of the name, which I like. Dean came up with the term "raised letters". And now he really sent me a somewhat larger than normal card with raised letters from Strassbourg. I am not sure if it is clear from the scan, but the letters STRASBOURG are lovingly cut out and stuck onto little pads, so they float about 3 mm above the card - no photoshop effects here. On the reverse side the "negative" of the letters is reused over an image of a nice restaurant. There are lots of other little glimpses of Strassbourg, eating and drinking and also a bottle of white wine. But hang on RIESLING is an Austrian type of wine - are the French actually cultivating Riesling too? Dean thank you so much, you put so much work into this piece! I am having a lot of fun with this Unofficial, Unlicensed, and Unauthorized piece of Mail Art.

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Happy it arrived and you replied within 15 days as mentioned.  As Alsace was once Germany, then France, then Germany, then France, a lot of the Germany wine making is left behind.  Marie W. will have my head for saying that. I am not a great fan of white wine, but Strasbourg is a very nice place to visit.

  Thanks for the fun blog.

[xx Jones]

I know, Katerina, I am lucky!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Wow! That's the Artist-in-Seine!

Unfortunately email art cannot have "raised letters" and

the "feel" of real snail mail art.

'Love those see-through letters...amazing, Dean!

xxJones, you got a great card there!