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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cheryl penn

Jen, tell me what day you're going, I'm coming too.

Nov 8, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Yes - from anthologies and journals mostly. Looked him up, and I remember (showing my age) the splash with Ashbery selecting him for the National Poetry Series - sure I read that long ago. Looks like a connection to Robert Kelly who was at Bard (also teacher of both members of Steely Dan - thus my interest in SD). All on the avant side of things. Looks like he did cross-over work with visual arts? A book about Warhol, it looks like. He's been around for a long time. But more of these folks than even mail-artists. Something strike your fancy w/ this particular citizen?

Nov 10, 2010
De Villo Sloan

I'd go. Only problem w/ mail-art is the distance - I'd invite myself along w/ you. Could produce some interesting inspiration for sure. Always helps to re-stock the shelves in the marketplace of ideas.

Nov 10, 2010
cheryl penn

Sir Bifidus. I'm a-sortin who I owe postin' to. Did you get a piece of The The World is a Town - if not SORRY!

Nov 11, 2010
cheryl penn

The VERY day I got yours - so drat thats quite a while back. Will send you another piece x

Nov 11, 2010
cheryl penn

P.S. Do you want to see your thorny issue piece haptic before I mail? Its ready. No sweat if not. Erni cant bear to get an image before hand...

Nov 11, 2010
cheryl penn

Sir B - ignore the last comment. I've changed my mind - you cant see before - whats the point - seeing is not haptic - not so?

Nov 11, 2010
cheryl penn

I posted you another piece of the World is a Town.

Nov 13, 2010
Karen Champlin

We always dread the snow because we live way off the street near the woods and the city doesn't plow us out. Zena is doing amazzzzing things for my mental health. Pets can do that. Zena the therapist. Her rates are good!

See ya on the main page!

Nov 13, 2010
Valentin N. Dolgov

Many thanks/
Валентин Долгов, 634057, Россия, Томск, а/я 5308
valentin dolgov? P.O.BOX 5308,Tomsk, Russia
I send one letters for you /17 11 2010/

Nov 18, 2010
cheryl penn

Your new photos are wows.

Nov 18, 2010
Laurence Roberts

many thanx for nice message bifidous :)

Nov 20, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Does this mean sequoia trees never die then -or live forever ? I am very taken with the thought from the picture and text above.

Thanx

Nov 20, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Thanks very much for your message -- glad to get it friend

Nov 20, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

Intriguing, fasinating, and a need-to-be-studied-very-closely piece! Thank you, Bifidus (whoever you are, as I still do not see a portrait photo here whereas I have updated my "image" for winter, see?).
Back to the Haptic...you understand that by using a torn piece of the map of Kentucky, you have focus my attention to the one and only place in that trailer-home state, back in 2003, that I ever spent 3 nights...in a trailer home natch: Morehead! Yes, yes, it is right there at the red-hooded victim of inspection.
And most fascinating, and sesitive to the touch: Braille! You can type in braille? Wow. Many thanks, I will spent hours "inspecting" this piece!

Nov 22, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

:-) The turtleneck covers up the double sagging chin as well! 'Would love to see what is under all that hair...maybe in the Spring when the cold Artic winds stop blowing and snows melt?

Nov 22, 2010
Jen Staggs

Thank you for the haptic postcard- I love the medieval dude presiding over the ECG. How did you make the braille letters? Looks almost like a braille typewriter did it.

Nov 27, 2010
cheryl penn

Thanks for letting me know - I thought there was a Minnesota Hiccup in the making!

Nov 27, 2010
cheryl penn

Responding in that size would be great! The book size is A5. I am trying to tie up the Crimson Giant, would you like to contribute another part or are you done? Either way ok, although another contribution, well, yes, fab!

Nov 28, 2010
cheryl penn

Sorry - just read your email properly! You can respond in any size not bigger than A5. Thats the size of the book. The envelopes including content will be sewn in the spine which is extend-able to accodate their bulk - thanks.

Nov 28, 2010
Eduardo Cardoso

Hello, mate! I received your beautiful postcard today. Thank you very much! :)

Gotta send you some paranormal mail art ;)

Nov 30, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Hi Bifidus. Thanks very much for your message. Great to get it.

Yes, they're my painting s ! Really like glad you like them so much !
Glad your mail art is on that great journey--thanks for the picture in your message. S great.

I feel encouraged
thanx Laurence

Dec 3, 2010
Laurence Roberts

A cool cat ! :)

Dec 3, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Bifidus! Got your card yesterday, thank you so much! Will feature soon...

Dec 4, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

Bifidus, that it is Grigori Antonin doing the Jean Genet mail art call, and the deadline is December 19! I just finished a card for it, in the mail on Monday!
Grigori Antonin
P.O.Box 580609
Minneaoplis, MN55458-0609 :-)

Dec 4, 2010
Elaine B(atgirl)

Thanks for the kind words, Mr. J! I just wish I had a better ability to transfer what I see in my head to the paper...

Dec 4, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Dear Bifidus, hope all is well with you. I have been enjoying your blogs. Grigori Antonin is doing the Jean Genet show. The deadline is December 19: http://www.no-john-rays.blogspot.com

Dec 4, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hello Bifidus, thanks for the catch-up note. Grigori did the Genet 100 call way back, but I think it became lost in the shuffle. It certainly seemed a very worthy theme for a show to me. If you can make the deadline, just remember to do it postcard size - that did me in - submitted wrong size. I'm running across people involved in the Brooklyn project. I saw the website, if we're speaking of the same thing, and it is interesting. Drop me a line when you're work for that is posted. And yes, I've seen your braille haptics; and Marie just posted what she received from you. I think that's a great concept - I have yet to find something like that for haptics I would consider even worthy to send you, seriously. And still trying to perfect asemics. Things are moving so fast. Hope we manage to stumble into each other. Oh, and it looks like you saw John Yau. Heck, we need some kind of board meeting to cover all this. Regards, DVS

Dec 5, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Thanks Bifidus appreciate your comments. Glad you like them.
I hope you'll like what I'm sending ( it's not in the league of what you sent me in March, which is just stunning.).

I feel honoured to have received one of your very first iuoma creations.

Dec 6, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Glad you like the self portrait-- I really love the freedom (somehow) of wax and dyes on silk. All flowing and direct -and yet 'unbcorrectable' - in and of the moment ...

Dec 6, 2010
Laurence Roberts

Uncorrectable moment-- yes , you're right. Makes me think too, of the I Ching and its sense of the moment & what it contains or

brings forth ...

Dec 6, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Bifidus! I sent you something but it got quite unfairly returned today. I should really collect all the return tags I got from the post office.
The envelope will need some taping and wont look very sexy, sorry about that. Haptic mail taihen desu ne!

Dec 7, 2010
cheryl penn

SORRY for you Bifidus, but the mirror DEFINITELY said what I said it did! Are you doing things YOU dont even know about??? AAAH! The realm of the unconscious - cant escape that...

Dec 8, 2010
cheryl penn

Bifidus! Reading Latin things upside down in front of the mirror with resultant English is MUCH better than sleep.

Dec 8, 2010
cheryl penn

Thank you Bifidus :-) I have an interesting one mulling around - waiting for Alexander completion. Bigger - but hope you will join.

Dec 9, 2010
Annapop

hello Bifidus !!!.... Many thanks for an interesting card ... she likes me .... I also send you an interesting postcard;-}

Dec 11, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Good to hear from you, Bifidus. I'll be glad to put the image you have from KC into the blog. Please direct me where to find it. I'm a lurker with haptics right now. and everything happening is fascinating. I think you're doing a tremendous job.

Dec 11, 2010
De Villo Sloan

At least you have the weather to blame. I saw the pic in the haptic group. Maybe what they say about winter in Minnesota is true. I must tell you there is a buzz behind the scenes about that pic. It has only served to generate more speculation, I can tell you that pic is being studied and analyzed by mail-artists. You remain a mystery. Good for you.

Dec 12, 2010
Karen Champlin

Your words were so appreciated about my work. It's mutual. When I receive one of your fantastic pieces, it inspires me to run into my studio and create! Your work says to me this is what it's all about. I thank you for that great incentive to work.

And your beautiful beautiful art.

Dec 12, 2010
Karen Champlin

Not really. Very windy, cold....about 5". I know you got hammered!

Dec 12, 2010
Karen Champlin

Wow....No Mail!!!! We really take that for granted. Make art, good plan.

Dec 13, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hello Bifidus, a belated response to your asemic braille question from this morning. I wrote to Cheryl not long ago saying we need to write a handbook of poetics for mail-art. All of us are going by operational definitions. I need to do more research; no question. Based on our operational definitions, a corrupted braille - where the meaning of the words has been seriously obscured or lost altogether - would be haptic asemic writing, if placed in the right context. Have we gone too far? Can you believe this? That does seem to be a valid hybrid. Could anyone possibly have done this before? Strange stuff. I hope your snow situation has improved. I listened to a news report tonight about the collapse of the stadium roof under the weight of the snow in Minn. Maybe you can call in Christo to wrap it. As ever, DVS

Dec 14, 2010
Marie Wintzer

Bifidus-san! Glad you got it, I was a bit worried. This was the mail that I got returned, yes. And the envelope seemed quite flimsy, I didn't know how far it would travel. Kudos to the postal service (for once). C'est tres tres petit, j'espere que tu as ouvert le trou et qu'il n'est pas trop "obstine'"!

Dec 15, 2010
Dr. Brignone

thank you VERY much!

Dec 15, 2010
cheryl penn

Great Bifidus!! We are allocating letters today - watch the new allocated letters discussion x

Dec 15, 2010
cheryl penn

I saw you booked P - :-)

Dec 15, 2010
Valentin N. Dolgov

Dec 15, 2010
De Villo Sloan

Hi Bifidus, I left a comment for you on the JF CHAPELLE blog on this same subject, but wanted to make sure this reached you: Did you notice on the Dick Higgins intermedia diagram he named "object poetry"? I have been wondering if that is an equivalent to haptic poetry. That might be another useful concept to keep in mind. Glad you're able to do 26. Should be a good one. Regards, DVS

Dec 15, 2010
ambro basho

THANKS!

Dec 22, 2010
Yuri To

Thank you for comment!! Hajimemashite---!

Jan 3, 2011