Received from Diane Keys, Svenja Wahl, Jen Staggs

[Marie Wintzer]

 

Big surprise in my mailbox. My first DK mail, yeeey! Two postcards on carboard. Could it even be very personalized mail? Did DK see my Chance/Choice picture and is sending a reply to it? Is it Chance or is it Choice? The characters on both cards are all blinded with the word Chance, Kings of which Kingdom, we will never know. The cards include numbers of various forms, and some of the text is alluding to (Illinois) lottery, mixing, games and prizes, cashier... The complexity of layers and textures is astounding, and the cards make the most perfect of pairs. This is fantastic work by the Queen of Trash....po, which I am very happy to have, thank you Diane!

 

 

The next piece is by Svenja Wahl, and you probably already know she makes beautiful envelopes. This one is a collage of vintage magazine and wildlife, including monkeys' facial expressions, great!

 

The envelope contains an intriguing and beautiful little piece, a slide (one doesn't see many of those anymore) with the picture of a statue, bathing in red light, and the words COULD I? Very cryptic, this could easily lead to plenty more questions and possible answers. Oh, and it's also ZALOP, did you notice? Thank you so much Svenja!

 

 

 

I was so happy to receive this envelope from Jen. She hasn't been around for a few months, working hard on her thesis, and she has been much missed. This is a beautiful lino print on french text. Jen, thank you for sending, I hope you'll be back for good!

 

*ps -  I'm into E.Muybridge these days, and that dress reminded me of this:

 

 

[Marie Wintzer]

Stop the French bashing right now or no croissant for you!!

[De Villo Sloan]

CB, must save Dw from himself. Erni - Charles DeGaulle was the last American president France had. We don't know what happened to them after that. Oh, I shall pay for this one... but it is among friends.

[Marie Wintzer]

A dark valley it was. CB was supposed to save you from the Empress of Trashpo, but it failed miserably, I remember....

[De Villo Sloan]

CB, we have walked through the Valley of Trashpo together. DV says it's a real quote.

[Marie Wintzer]

Did you just make that up, DVS? :-) 

Madame De Gaulle is thought to have uttered good ones too.

[De Villo Sloan]

One of my favorite quotes. I might have posted it before. Charles DeGaulle said: "There is French culture and the rest is Agriculture."

[Marie Wintzer]

Baguette-carrying under the armpit, yes :-)) With striped shirt and beret hat. Every day. I confirm.

Americans, hmmm, super sized, yes. I can't think of other things.

[DKeys]

:) I was teasing Dean about how good the art he sent me was, particularly so if he was drunk at the time he made it. Kat and him sounded like they had way too much fun making trashpo and drinking wine in Paris. I can't imagine the French being big binge drinkers, but somehow that sounds better than bad smelling cheese eaters:) you made me laugh. The 'cliche' I think of is coffee drinking, baguette carrying, and smoking. Aren't Americans mostly known for being super sized?

[Marie Wintzer]

I've been sulking here too, Diane :-)) But I should have made the first step instead of sulking. I WILL send you something of course! What, I don't know yet. I can't send people crushed beer cans, it's beyond me. One doesn't become a trashpoist like that, by one click of the fingers. Ah, it doesn't need to be trashpo anyway.
So the french are a bunch of drinkers, huh? I thought the only stereotype about us is that we are bad smelling cheese eaters (partially true). We don't have a binge drinking culture, Dean is right, we are more "rafiné" than you think we are! (I need to stand up for my people, even if I'm not convinced myself)...

[Nancy Bell Scott]

I've heard that about France and tend to believe it.

No mine doesn't glow--it's covered with dirt. There was even a little pile of dirt that fell off in transit, collected in the wrapping paper. But plenty remains on the can itself. I'll photograph it before any more falls off and blog it very soon, hopefully this weekend. I hope my can wasn't feeling inferior to your glowing one out there in the country. If so, their relationship was probably really screwed up.