The Epistolarium

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 4, 2013 at 2:44am

DOLL photo by Marianne Dedecker, Belgium

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 19, 2013 at 8:50pm

That (successful) age 59 address, Guido--it's a modern-day miracle. I love it! The new large painting is mighty powerful, stunning. 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 16, 2013 at 8:00pm

Theresa your reaction on mountain doll collage triggered me into making a new large painting: CAN YOU SEE THE RABBIT DOLL INSIDE A ROCK?

One of my best paintings so far but it is hard to judge yourself!

More photos (over 30) are on 

http://guidovermeulen.blogspot.com

I want to exhibit this painting in May at the Grelha restaurant, so I shall not mail this before June or July. When a buyer shows up at the Grelha I am in deep emotional shit! Already happened in April when someone wanted to buy the painting I made for Sarah (in Indiana prison, refused by the prison authorities and not collected by her friends, so returned to me). I don’t want to sell this work I had to explain. Huh???

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 16, 2013 at 7:58pm

Theresa your reaction on mountain doll collage triggered me into making a new large painting: CAN YOU SEE THE RABBIT DOLL INSIDE A ROCK?

One of my best paintings so far but it is hard to judge yourself!

More photos (over 30) are on http://guidovermeulen.blogspot,com

I want to exhibit this painting in May at the Grelha restaurant, so I shall not mail this before June or July. When a buyer shows up at the Grelha I am in deep emotional shit! Already happened in April when someone wanted to buy the painting I made for Sarah (in Indiana prison, refused by the prison authorities and not collected by her friends, so returned to me). I don’t want to sell this work I had to explain. Huh???

This was conceived as a gift.

Huh huh??

I do mail art. I sent art works to people thru the mail.

Huh huh huh???

The guy was what they call in French a BROCANTEUR, so he buys and sells on flea markets and collects art objects and bric a brac for himself. He showed me some astonishing Japanese prints, DO NOT SELL THESE I begged him. Then he wanted that I restored some old damaged paintings. Okay, when I find some time perhaps ...

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 16, 2013 at 1:31am

Triptych doll art from Theresa (Great! Even rabbit Nero fell in love with it)

More photos of photoshoot in my garden 2day on

http://mailartinternationale.blogspot.com

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 15, 2013 at 1:04am

What is a doll?

A lump of sugar in my throat!

Diabetic Guido

or to paraphrase WA Mozart

COSI FAN TUTTE

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 15, 2013 at 1:00am

Well, I am (to certain limits) a follower of Guy Bleus, one of the 2 guys responsible for spreading mail art around in Belgium. Guy’s idea of mail art was a direct confrontation with the administration of the postal system (amongst others). Confrontation can be how you say this «therapeutic». So from a negative it becomes a postive mirror. That is part of my experience in mail art anyway!

Last week I received a mail art piece that was addressed like this:

Guido Vermeulen

age 59

Brussels, Belgium

with a sticker of the post office: address incomplete

(no address and no ZIP code of Brussels township)

BUT delivered in my mail box despite the sticker.

Showed the mail art piece to my friends at the Portuguese Grelha restaurant where I have permanent exhibitions since this month (I shall change works every month) and the comments were: MAN, you must have a SOLID reputation in the whole of postal system in Brussels!

LoL

So I think I have OVER PASSED in a way the gap between mail art and mail regulations somehow but like every evolution this is temporary, so I do not sleep on sudden HAPPY EVENTS, I still think Guy has a point though perhaps less then in the past. But this could change at any minute! It‘s all a question of personal connections and a certain drive of persistence, like challenging art museums and galleries (VOMIT VOMIT VOMIT)

I need a drink right now!

Love to all of you

G

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on April 14, 2013 at 12:28am

Extremely delightful postal conversation, Guido! gave me more than one good laugh. This is inspiration to take stuff to the post office more often. I am lazy and leave it in our mailbox for the mailman to take there.

Comment by xx Jones on April 14, 2013 at 12:25am

makes me smile   :-)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on April 13, 2013 at 11:47pm

To paraphrase author Hugo Claus: museums are like cathedrals, they need to be bombed!

On a more serious level, new Epistolarium collage I made 2day (in series of 5) and all of them are linked to a certain degree...

I called this one OBSERVING THE MOUNTAIN DOLL

To all collage lovers: become follower and? or participant of

http://networkcollages. blogspot.com

When I posted the package via the local post office I had this funny conversation;

-I was not sure of the postage stamps because the envelope is bigger than usual

-The weight is all right but the size is not, this will cost you at least 80 euros (a joke of the postal worker)

-Ah, book me a flight to New York then, so I can do a personal delivery mail, the way things are going flying will become less expensive than mailing

(LoL from everybody at the post office)

-Why did you cover the envelope

-Because it is a painting and in recent times some mail does not arrive, I suppose it reached a new destination in the hands of postal worker in the US

-Hey, that’s the mister who makes this incredible drawings and paintings on envelopes (a postal worker)

-Are you sure it is an American who keeps the envelopes, you heard the reaction, the problem could be Belgian (lol again)

-It is easier to blame the americans, they are used to that!

LoL (but not from everybody)

-Come here more often with your mail, at least we can have a good laugh

-That’s a deal but I wanna a serious reduction on the postal rates

(general laughter).

I leave the post office!

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