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:

 

 

[DKeys]

Can't wait to see it Nancy-does it glow like mine does? no hint for wine-cheap or fine..I don't drink. Dean Marks has advised me that excessive drinking in France does not make one drunk--it makes them 'civilized'. It's all a matter of perspective

[Nancy Bell Scott]

That's a very nice compliment, Diane. In case you're hinting that you actually want me to send fine wine, that ain't gonna happen. It's only cheapo wine here, and it stays here.

Marie sounds as happy about your *first* mail art to her as you would/will be over hers to you. Unspoken wishes are no good, I've been trying to make that known! And today the wish I posted here on birthday came true--Lisa's second squashed tree can arrived and I am THRILLED!

[DKeys]

I have been sulking for a long time that I had never received  MA from Marie (except for the asemic chapter) so I sent this with selfish hopes of her sending me something back

[De Villo Sloan]

OK, I retract anything I said. I was talking about "The Matrix," BTW.

[DKeys]

Nancy-your imported trash is the best and I don't care who has anything to say about it. Your trash is like a fine wine, where a lot of the trash I find here is related to meat.

[DKeys]

Don't listen to DVS Marie, he's lost in a matrix of his own making and can't move past the "Should I Shouldn't I take the red or blue pill?" The answer is so obvious, to me at least, that he should not take any pill at all. 

He should just eat cookies.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

spell chick asleep

[Nancy Bell Scott]

As usual, a great blog, Marie, and about excellent works. The conversation between you and Diane is most interesting! Luckily, trash is not necessarily one of those "it is is what it is" things that apparently have been reproducing all over the world.

[De Villo Sloan]

Not you Marie! Don't drink the kool aid! Take the blue pill!

[DKeys]

yes Marie, completely tailor made to you!!!