Valentine Mark Herman's Comments

I have one project drying (your requested orange and purple) piece.

Next up: Hepburn themed mailing!

Sincerely,

Baked Beans on Toast No Butter

Thank you, Val, for the image of the Angel of the North. I did look it up, but i could not scan an image of it to our Postal discussion. From far away it must look like a cross? a windmill with only two arms? It is HUGE!Delete Comment

Connect the dots between the Johns and Burbank/NYC...

I met John Evans in 1987 at a gathering Lon Speiglman hosted here in Los Angeles.

We continue to get together whenever I go to New York and he to LA.

Our next visit June 13 - 18 in NYC.

The fake collage project started in 2006 and oh boy is he amused.

And it is a HUGE sculpture...beautiful.

From afar, it has a wing-span like a windmill up on a hill perhaps?

Numbers??? I don't get that. Some ideas: the meaning of life according to one's self; a retrospective about toilet paper from different countries  from a cultural/anthropological viewpoint;  spreading of global goodwill; inventing a progressive tale with or without words; or do we want it to be a lighter topic?cheryl h.

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Me Too! Thanks for the adventure!!

Until next time,

Kitty

Wait, I don't see my message. Je repète, would it make any sense to arrange the order of participants according to the country they live in?

I like the idea of you starting the first piece of the art conversation.

cheryl h.

Phew, I had to spit that out fast.....okay slow directions: here is a picture of one side removed. Cut through only the tape and it will slide apart.Let me know how the event went!

I am so glad I am still getting entertainment from the "tube", perhaps you will find the best part about it has been this excitement over opening it!

Dearest Valentine, so glad you are at home with your hairy friends and your fresh box of mail! I should let you know I adore my TP and wrapping paper and the lovely stamp that brought them here! You are dreamy!

Yes, I am the sender of the "tube", I am certainly hoping it has met with you in it's proper form, was there no legible reference to my moniker? So sad!

Then let me take this opportunity to say here...."... a splendid old tube from Fred's garage that he abandoned the day I went to take care of him. Well....he died and left me there with his things. I found the tube in the garage with it's special label and an awful smell that led me to believe that, Fred, he had meddled with chemistry! After a bit of cleaning I began to think; I like Val so well with his hat, I think it should go to him."

More of Fred's things found their way to me, a rolled up, safely kept ,sheet of paper, many sheets of paper, bound with ribbon. An odd paper almost like waxy, or true parchment. It must be special as it was at the very back of his bedroom filing cabinet along with a small book titled "The Specialist".Which I decided to turn into an address book. But I used the paper for the monarch.

Then, subject to the idea of monarchy, that which is foreign to me, I put my objects together, which required an ale. So the birth of the tube;

What is a monarch? A butterfly.

What supports a monarch? A podium.

Well what in the world does a monarch support? "THE QUEEN'S KNEECAPS", or they should anyway.

All this stuffed and stacked in order of monarchy into a little tube.

It was much fun and thank you for the inspiration!

Yours,

Kitty

Hello ol' chap, as you came to the UK for the royal Wedding, I assume a mail piece will arrive in my mail box also...as royally as it did for Herr Haptic Erni? I did see you, oh great-by-appt-Conceptual-Artist in the crowd outside the palace..

.'did wave but you did not wave back ;-(

I am devastated (has I have stated at blog site)

Princess Kate 

Hi Val! Thanks so much for the Royal Mail!! I loved it and it is so generous of you! I laughed and laughed! I really didn't know that the British had such a sense of humor sometimes.

cheryl h.

Hi Valentine

Thanks for your mail  art piece to the mail art call "Planet earth is a large island with a huge ocean around"

!namaste!

What do I win for playing?

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As for the Purple with Orange, haven't we already used both your chosen colors? Ah, well, no matter. I'll let it go--this time. This would mainly be because that happens to be one of my favorite color combos of all time. Believe it or not, I enjoy that pairing. This will give me another crack at playing around with the colors I like, so you're lucky! This time, anyway.

Bon Voyage and hiccup

One Slice of Toast with Bilberry Jam