David Stafford

Male

Santa Fe, NM

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:: way back
My Website (without http://):: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=708157238
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: Seemed like a good idea at the time....
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): 137 Alamo Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87501

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MaryAnne

Thanks for the encouraging comment. My printer deserves some of the credit for doing such a good job. Google "yourstamps" for his info. Am getting ready with another batch of designs but as always, more ideas than pennies to pay for them!!!

Feb 18, 2011
Bethany Lee

Thank you, David, for the lovely ATC of "Mistaken for Cleopatra"! Fantabulous! I will send a reply soon!

Feb 18, 2011
Karen Champlin

Thank you David. The series is called "Lost Asemics". I got your latest ATC Friday. It craked me up! You're so great at those tiny works of art! Go Rebels!

Feb 19, 2011
cheryl penn

Did you in any event decide to take up the psychic post? :-)

Feb 19, 2011
cheryl penn

Phew - it was you???

Feb 19, 2011
Karen Champlin

very cool, thanks David.

Feb 19, 2011
Lorraine Kwan

Hi David

I am making a mailart dress. Will be adding more photos of the progress today.

Feb 19, 2011
jon foster

Thanks so much for the generous mail-wow! I will make something out the magazines and send it back to you. By the way, do you like antique stamps, I got some that I'd be willing to mail to you?

Feb 19, 2011
cheryl penn

Bad news on this front will show you later!

Feb 20, 2011
cheryl penn

The bad news is there was a severe monkey attack today. Twenty plenty of them. I put the pic of an offender on your blog by DVS :-) Are you surrendering your crown??? Or reapplying :-)

Feb 20, 2011
cheryl h.

Thanks for the advice David. I will try to improve my gluing techniques. So, far I haven't found a glue that works well for me. Someone said white rubber cement?

We actually live in the unincorporated area of MP which sort of blends with RWC.

cheryl h.

Feb 20, 2011
cheryl h.

HHehhehe, sounds like where I live too, between Marsh Road and 5th Avenue but no ponies! Thanks for the glue tips, I will try to go to University Arts or the like.

cheryl

Feb 20, 2011
cheryl h.

I have no idea. Maybe it was your work which was witty and streamlined???

Feb 20, 2011
Karen Champlin

You crack me UP!!!

Feb 20, 2011
Karen Champlin

Asemic Monthly is just too damm Cool!! You are amazing!

Feb 21, 2011
Ptrzia (TICTAC)

hi David your amazing ATCs have happily landed in my blog now...

http://tac-tictac.blogspot.com/

thank you very much, i really enjoy your work!

cheers

Feb 22, 2011
Jen Staggs

Oooh- Your penmanship is heading into Lisa Iversen/Skybridge Studios territory! Just got the Story of Jimmy the Mute Boy. Thank you! Very interesting beginning to a curious novel. Or maybe it's a whole novel in itself- a Haiku Novel. I owe you one. Well, I owe you several, but I have to make you something extra cool- every time I sit down, only moderately cool art is made...I must crank up the creativity knob to Eleven!

Feb 23, 2011
Jennie Hinchcliff

WHA?! You're going to be in SF this weekend?! That's very exciting...perhaps there should be some sort of mail art highjinks/caffeinating? It sounds like you might be very busy tho'...

Send an email my way (redletterdayzine@gmail.com) and I'll rack my brain with some sort of awesome for you to experience in the City...

Feb 23, 2011
cheryl penn

Dear David Stafford,

This is to inform you that your most excellent of coffee table books has arrived safely to Kwa Zulu Natal. Titled Women at Sea, this is worth publishing.

Yours sincerely,

"Made especially for Cheryl Penn who could not be with us this evening"

P.S. - FAB - thank you :-) x

Feb 25, 2011
Jen Staggs

My creativity knob must exist in a wrinkle in time or a vast galactic wormhole 'cause it ain't here. Sending you something in spite of that though!

Feb 25, 2011
Jen Staggs

Ooh. Don't get too excited. Best to rest in apathy by the television instead.

Feb 26, 2011
Valentin N. Dolgov

Hi David! Thank your card " Тонкий баланс"!

Feb 27, 2011
Helder

Hi David !

Today I sent you one piece , I must point out that I was a bit sad to let go of her, but I know it will be in good hands :)

!namaste!

Feb 28, 2011
Jen Staggs

I love the Post-Modern Fairy Tale you sent. Your handwriting immediately caught my eye (I collect dip pens, so I'm nerdy like that.) I've known many princesses like Daphne- beautiful but not always pleasant. That comes with the territory in Dallas. Thank you for the Literary art via Mail...if not Mail Art.

Mar 2, 2011
Jen Staggs

I love leaving the house with ink-stained fingers- it feels like a badge of honor- a learned person's tattoo- an intellectual mark of distinction. It means you've been up to something.

Mar 3, 2011
Karen Champlin

I mailed you 2 ATCs today to 177 Alamo (that's how i read it). I hope you get them one day. They're good. :-) Ah life!

Mar 3, 2011
Karen Champlin

Good News! The letter hadn't been mailed. I mailed stuff that morning but apparently not yours. It was still in the Going...Going...pile.

Mar 4, 2011
Helder

Glad you liked my piece :)

Mar 5, 2011
Ptrzia (TICTAC)

Hi David ..your wittily humorous fantabulous transit letter has arrived in my happy mailbox...thank you so much. Needless to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it!

:-)

http://tac-tictac.blogspot.com/

Mar 6, 2011
Mercedes "La Marquesa"

I was helping my husband move his office and there were these really shallow flagstone steps. The risers maybe 2-3 inches and the stones all blended in....well i tripped on one and went flying forward and landed on my right knee. Even though the pain was incredible, I convinced myself it was a sprain. The next day I decided to have it checked out, since the last time I didn't think I broke anything (last June) I had been wrong. Xrays showed multiple fractures at the patella so again I was wrong. The bad part is I can't drive and there are so many things I thought I might be able to do but can't. Can't wait to bend my knee again....perhaps in the next month or so I will start physical therapy. Maybe I'm just clumsy....never thought of myself that way, or maybe the Universe is trying to tell me to slow down....cause I sure have had to. ;-)

Mar 7, 2011
Natasha Jabre

I received your letter; check out my blog to see your image! Thanks!

Mar 9, 2011
Ashazart

David, thank you very much for the marvelous goat-headed-woman-holding-cactus-by-leash. I love it and I was very surprised when it arrived in my mail. Little did I know you weren't really asking for suggestions on what to make for someone else when we were chatting. I like the studies too. I appreciate the effort you put into this mailing! Cynthia

Mar 11, 2011
Carla Cryptic

This is what the sticker would look like with credit to you given... about 1.5 x 2 inch rectangle. I tried to blend the credit line in so it wouldn't dominate the artwork. Let me know if it's okay for me to make some of these to use on my ATC Rebels mailings - would send you a bunch for yourself also naturally! ;)

Mar 11, 2011
Carla Cryptic

Oh, cool! Yes, that would be cool - send to carlacryptic@yahoo.com (the illustrator file, that is!) - are you sure you don't want your name on it somewhere? I did it very tastefully! lolol

Mar 11, 2011
Carla Cryptic

Nah - I'm bolshy - CS3 still works fine for me. ;) I spend most of my money on music software these days. Truthfully, your image looks pretty good - very clean. No need to send me the file really. Thanks for permission to use it.

Mar 11, 2011
Jennie Hinchcliff

David -- if I would've known about your Queen of Hearts love, I would've sent her off to you! But how do you feel about her sister, the Q of Spades? ...

Mar 12, 2011
Jenny England

I like your style! I am not yust a watercolour. Trust me and be my friend!

Mar 12, 2011
cheryl penn

Its a secret

The answer for which YOU must HuNt

Are YoU

are are you KNOt

That is the AnsweR

Mar 15, 2011
Kim JungYoun

Hello David,

Thanks for the wonderful photo!!!

I love it.

I'm so glad you and Brooklyn like the bookmark. :)

Mar 15, 2011
cheryl penn

Ok thats funny :-))) no - it was just a THING tHing... Okra - thats a color right?? No, totally subliminal...

Mar 16, 2011
Carla Cryptic

Cool! Glad they arrived already. :D

Mar 19, 2011
Marcela Peral

Nice you already have them!!!Sorry David if it was confussed... They are two different projects. You can add and send Sobre-cito, and all the little envelopes you want, no dead-line. Link: www.sobre-cito.blogspot.com
The stamps are for you, I`m sending them all over the world, and if you want you can send me a postcard with your own shout : "This mouth is mine" deadline: September 30th. www.estabocaesmiamailart.blogspot.com
Ì´m always working in several things at the time!!!
Then you can also see Sand Book Discussion in Haptic Poetry Group...
Link: www.librodearenaproject.blogspot.com
Keep in contact! Greetings from the very south!!!

Mar 19, 2011
Jennie Hinchcliff

Mr. David! :-) Yes, the text was typed on the typewriter; I am somehow surprised that you don't have one! What about a dymo labeler? You've used/seen 'em, right?

Mar 21, 2011
De Villo Sloan

David! I can't thank you enough for sending Ron Padgett's "A Memoir of Joe Brainard." The synchronicity of all this amazes me - I'm reading about the second generation New York School right now. I was reading a chapter in David Lehman's book about Brainard's "I remember" poem right before your package arrived. I'm talking about Tom Clark all the time only because I've been a fan of his work for years, and I consider him a part of the New York School. This is fantastic! Thanks again. Those photos are cool too. But what are they? DVS

Mar 21, 2011
Jennie Hinchcliff

You are seriously cracking me up! :-) x100...would you have any interest in a real live dymo? I have an extra I'd love to share with you, if it would be of use...

Mar 21, 2011
De Villo Sloan

Incredible David, and I hadn't seen the comic. I hope we can get into all this sometime, somewhere because it seems so relevant to mail-art. Thanks for the tip on the O'Hara biography. I've always been lukewarm on the NY School for one reason: John Ashbery. And I hate to bring cultural politics into our peaceful little world here, but I think Ashbery is a case of hyper-inflation of reputation and a wrong direction artistically. I'm just bypassing and following the O'Hara line. There's a lot of great humor there. Wow, thanks again

Mar 21, 2011
Red Head Love

I'm glad you received it...took me long enough to get something back too you. Was trying new things out so I procrastinated because I get neeeervous!

Looks like the collage got a little wear and tear through the mail...even better.

And you are right-I cut and pasted the collage together on back of a manilla folder and then minimize, scanned and threw it to a piece of cardboard. Nothing on the front-just paper and glue! I like to keep it simple...mostly cuz thats all I know!

Sometimes I mount my art and use Mod Podge...I LOVE that stuff!

Anyway-thanks for posting it on your page and for the kind words :)

Mar 22, 2011
Red Head Love

GLUE, SEALER AND FINISH.

LOVE-LOVE-LOVE!!

Mar 22, 2011
Red Head Love

Actually that card was not coating with anything-just color printed paper!

Mar 22, 2011
Karen Champlin

Very fine work on those dark ATCs. Excellent David. I smile when I get one of your envelopes. :-)

Mar 22, 2011