Bifidus Jones

Minneapolis, MN

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:: Including my past lives?
My Website (without http://):: http://n/a
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: Exchanging art through the mail is a great way to connect internationally with others on a tangible and soul-full level.

Current interests include: the Hall of Bulls, illuminated manuscripts, owls, Jeanne d'Arc, Don Quixote, La Divina Commedia, maps, Greek deities, Matsuo Basho, Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers, astronomy, frogs, snakes, the Sherwood Forest, petroglyphs, Louise Nevelson, Magritte, and Shakespeare.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): bifidusjones@gmail.com

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amazon59

Thanks - I look forward to interesting involvement!

Aug 22, 2010
De Villo Sloan

mutual. I've been seeing that critter of yours for a long time. must eat a lot of dog chow in a day. I look forward to some mailart exchanges.

Aug 31, 2010
cheryl penn

Will be glad to swop! Have to find to do my job with all this mail art activity!! BUT I think I have an interesting solution.

Sep 3, 2010
Annette Dennis

Thanks so much -- I'm looking forward to learning what this site is all about.

Sep 6, 2010
evie satijadi

hi !! its a pleasure to meet you too !!!

Sep 7, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hey Bifidus, Katerina - I don't know her, guess you do - was talking about not being able to get Elmer's Glue in, is it, Greece. But maybe she's covered. Thanks for the info on customs - I get nervous with that stuff. Nice to be able to talk to you. DVS

Sep 9, 2010
Valentine Mark Herman

Dear Bifidus, I'll send you an envelope later today --DONT open it, because there is nothing inside: the art is on, not in, the envelope. I too am a Hundertwasser fan. Look at my website www.val-herman-art.eu under the heading 'Collages', then 'Works', and half way down you'll find 'Friedensreich Hundertwasser lives here'. Regards, Val

Sep 14, 2010
Valentine Mark Herman

It's Val again! The Envelope is in the post -- it's Frog Art, and i hope you like it. Regards

Sep 14, 2010
Snappy

Received your collage - great piece!
Many thanks.
ciao, ciao,
Snappy

Sep 15, 2010
Karen Champlin

I knew That Key Piece Was right for you. Don't worry, I have lots of hardware.
k

Sep 16, 2010
De Villo Sloan

I messed up the link. I meant this. You'll recognize:

http://www.openfluxus.org/photo/from-the-fluxus-book-of-the-5?conte...

Sep 16, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Yes, Tokyu Hands is paradise isn't it? I had a colleague who spent all his weekends in there. I haven't reached that stage yet but it's close.

Sep 23, 2010
cheryl penn

Have you had my mail??? It CANNOT be that far to Africa!

Sep 23, 2010
cheryl penn

So glad you keen!

Sep 25, 2010
cheryl penn

Thank you Bifidus Jones! I am REALLY looking forward to getting your work. Sometimes the layering seems to heavy I cant breathe, but if I was not layering I would not be able to breathe x

Sep 25, 2010
cheryl penn

So far De Villo Sloan. I am posting to Jen Staggs, Librarian on the Loose and Karen Champlin today. That makes 5. I may ask Erni today and am then hunting for 1 more x

Sep 28, 2010
cheryl penn

De Villo and you have mentioned Julian Grant - I am having a hunt for him - and on these recommendation I HOPE he joins - thanks for the suggestion x

Sep 29, 2010
cheryl penn

Dear Bifidus, thank you for the suggestion - you and De Villo are on the same page(!) I have asked Julian to be 'friends' - put in a good word for me!x

Sep 29, 2010
cheryl penn

Hope we can keep up the swopping aside from the book?? Am posting you something tomorrow x

Sep 29, 2010
cheryl penn

Morning! Please read my blog - Instructions for The Crimson Giant - comment on the blog so we can all keep an eye on whats going on there - I was asked to clarify certain details x

Sep 30, 2010
Jen Staggs

Hello there, fellow Crimson Giant recipient- just doing a little networking and getting all a-flutter about your work. It makes me do a little dance in my brain.

Oct 6, 2010
cheryl penn

And I am doing a jig!!!!! Cant wait - well done!! I already have the next section going full tilt - si you wont have to wait long... Have a good weekend x

Oct 8, 2010
cheryl penn

It was interesting when DVS asked for some sort of explanation from me (you commented on the blog) about the work - the voice of the artist accompanying the visual voice - BUT I will let you know before I blog it - WHEN I GET IT! so that you can see my interpretation before it goes international!! Thank you for participating - I really appreciate it.

Oct 9, 2010
Richard F. Yates

Still waiting for the last few persons to send their contributions. I'll bug them and see if we could speed up the process.

Oct 11, 2010
cheryl penn

Let me try again - Austin in Dallas, Marie in Japan, ERni in Germany, Liberian on the Loose, Jen Staggs, De Villo, you and me. Have you seen ERni's blog? Cant tell you how glad I am you are on board x

Oct 12, 2010
Pamela Gerard

Thanks for the welcome. Appreciate it.Will post some photos soon. Pamela

Oct 15, 2010
Valentine Mark Herman

Dear Bifidus, Thanks very much for the Birthday Greetings. merci beaucoup pour les salutations de mon anniversaire. Keep on rockin'! Regards, Val

Oct 15, 2010
EFTICHIA PETALA

i like your works

Oct 16, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Got your card yesterday Bifidus, thanks so much, love it! Something has been sent to you at the same time!
Haha, I'm french but a very bad speller. Much worse than you. Your comment on the "Ambassade" made me laugh a lot :-))))

Oct 18, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hi Bifidus, yeah - oh man I'm bad - the African flu is going around. Heck, yes, I would love to be part of a Hapatic group. This place is really a poetic goldmine. I was remembering how Ginsberg had The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and maybe we could come up with some good name to describe what we're doing generally on the poetic side. Codescru (spg?) has been stuck in my mind since the day you brought him up. I can appreciate his wry, detached way of looking at the literary scene - but if the noise ever clears around here - I'll tell you about something he got in the middle of that wasn't so funny. Count me in on Haptic - I'd like to see some work of that nature produced too.

Oct 19, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Ok Ok, je vais craquer un peu plus alors...

Oct 19, 2010
Valentine Mark Herman

Thank you/merci beaucoup/ bedank/ dankescholn/grazie/gracias, etc! Val

Oct 20, 2010
jon foster

Word, I'm glad you're into humor, been looking for these folks for a while.

Oct 20, 2010
Marie Wintzer

I can't gambatte anymore....

Oct 21, 2010
Marie Wintzer

You're welcome desu. Right now I'm thinking about those japanese cookies poetically called (and shaped like) Collon (at least they added an L). Maybe you've seen them.
PS: it's high time for a clue!

Oct 21, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Dear Bifidus, I have just now been able to give your further thoughts about the haptic group the attention they deserve - having somewhat recovered from my alchemical meat poetics rant, so inspired by you Marie. Of course, I ultimately defer to you on all matters haptic - but am pleased to provide feedback as your honored first recruit-convert. I was immediately drawn to your "shape to shifting singularities" construct as some kind of guiding theme or even a manifesto. Makes sense that temporality would be built in. My own desires would involve (1) knowledge of what has been done and (2) to actually see haptic creations from members - that might not be fluid enough - but basically I'd like to make some of this stuff when I think I have a handle on it. "shape to shifting singularities" already creates something.

Oct 21, 2010
cheryl penn

Hey Bifidus - I sent you another section of the book today - now I will have to make more for everyone - just because your pages whispered, then called and then yelled and the only way to keep them quiet was to provide some sort of answer to the clamor of symbols x

Oct 22, 2010
cheryl penn

Hello - DONT wait for protocol - I want to see!! Thank you for blogging my card x

Oct 25, 2010
cheryl penn

P.S. The reasons are: by the time the pages get here, I will be old and grey, the Crimson Giant will have left for an alternate performance in another book and the closed note might say Abandon Babel.

Oct 25, 2010
cheryl penn

Ok - But they get here last and I will be VERY old and grey...

Oct 25, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Classic post you made on Erni's board, Bifidus. A break from haptic studies?

Oct 25, 2010
Larned Justin

Thanks, glad you got a kick out of it.

Oct 29, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Bifidus! I got your Giant yesterday, thank you! The envelope was badly damaged but it somehow made it through with apologies from US Mail service. The book page is safe though.

Oct 30, 2010
Karen Champlin

Thanks for asking Bif. Zena has marched bravely into our home (with a huge dog) and set up house. She is very into people. She like to walk across my lap top when I'm on it. She's just with me all day! I really love it! She even comes when I call her. Good Cat. I hope you
liked your piece.

Nov 4, 2010
Tomoe N

Thanks for the birthday message. ありがとうございます。
Very nice of you.

Nov 6, 2010
cheryl penn

Hey Bifidus - glad Red arrived safely - AND that you like - will comment there now now.

Nov 6, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

Yes, Bifidus, you are a "quite nice" bacteria...now really,
is there a human face behind this electronic page :-o

Nov 6, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

FALL back in the FALL (now this Autumn)
and SPRING ahead in the SPRING!
Yes...we already set our clocks BACk last Sunday,
in Europe, in Turkey,etc.
You are "behind-the-times" in the USA! Fall back...
What were you doing at 10:10 on October 10, 2010????

Nov 7, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hi Bifidus, here's the link:

http://www.bastardedxerox.blogspot.com/

Here's the address from the email. I'd double-check on the site:

Vitaly Maklakov
PO Box 38
Sverdlovsk area
c. Kamensk-Uralsky
623430
Russia

Nov 8, 2010
Jen Staggs

Oh how I wish I could tromp through your soggy barn'o'ephemera! Oh, and

TNASU TROP MATETIR TAIEULI ROMREVA

TN ASU TROP MATE TIRTA IEULI ROMRE VA

T' NA SUT ROP MAT ET IRTAI EUL IROM R EVA

arg. the tower of babel is babbling me dizzy.

TN ASU TROP MATE TIRTA IEULI ROMRE VA

T' NA SUT ROP MAT ET IRTAI EUL IROM R EVA

arg. the tower of babel is babbling me dizzy.

Nov 8, 2010