Nancy Bell Scott

Female

South Portland, ME

United States

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Mail-Artist since:: 2011 at the latest. (By the way, please NO add+pass. Can't do it.)
My Website (without http://):: http://nancybellscott.wordpress.com
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: Woke up one morning and there it was, in my DNA.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): 47 Parrott St, South Portland ME 04106, USA

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prettylily

Nancy, you are my kind of gal! <3 One day soon, I will make a card and it will scream.....NBS! Then off to you it will go.....

Jul 25, 2011
a lot of people seem to think it's about leaving art about town - which is fine, i like ambiguity as much as the next guy. but certainly, to me, the main meaning of freedom is the one that goes with democracy / liberty. ;-D

Jul 25, 2011
DKeys

Love the art on your site-I love old texts too, and of course, handwritten anything. I PROMISE I will not sell anything you sent or send me. I will never need to after that 1.61 I made from you. We even put some in savings. Love the smell of books:)

Jul 26, 2011
DKeys

I'm nearly out of trash at the moment, which is always sad. I need a website for my art or a blog or whatever, but I've never found one that was as easy as they said it would be. IOUMA is the only place I have my art up-other than occasionally posting on Facebook. I love the idea of trash being 'previously owned' I think I'll call it 'pre-loved' although I guess if it was loved, it wouldn't have gotten thrown away.Glad you found IOUMA and hope you have a good day. I didn't check but your ebay name said antiques-do you sell antiques online?

Jul 26, 2011
prettylily

Nancy, My friend.......today I am challenging myself. I will use to use minimal pieces - to the maximum. A hard one for me. (I always want to carry things too far) So, today will be inspired by Nancy. :-) Thanks for the inspiration!

Jul 26, 2011
DKeys

How wonderful! Look forward to seeing it. My husband is my mail provider of found garbage. I use it up the same day he finds it, so need to build up the reserves for awhile. I have so much art to return that I've been feverishly making art while I have some time. Hell breaking loose is a definate possibility with school starting next month and all. Is wordpress free? I would LOVE the help!! THank you for offering. I got some trash while we were just art--good stuff, these big industrial stickers. Had to ask the unloading the palates for them, but he was pretty deadpan about it and said SURE. Well, have a good day:) nice chatting with you

Jul 26, 2011
prettylily

Uh, Nancy, oh master of the minimal, I did send you something today, but you will see I didn't quite make the 3 piece goal! I will keep trying. You are on my list more than once. <3

Jul 26, 2011
prettylily

Know exactly what you mean, Nancy. And those purple dots; just blame it on the cat. I do! :-)

Jul 26, 2011
Lesley Magwood Fraser

Yes Nancy I would love to mail with you! Send something soon so that i can reciprocate.

Jul 27, 2011
Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

Bad trip! Yesterday, the envelope I sent to you landed at home (???). I don´t understant, this is not a heavenly question, I promissed. It is not a question of an envelope returned to sender, but one regularly delivered to a local address....mine!. My conclusion is that someone took sender for destination address. In Brazil we use to write sender addresses on the back side of the envelope. Mine to you was made along US style, that´s why maybe.... I have no other explanation. You will receive the old envelope inside a brand new. They are on the mail again Open´it with care. That´s the story.

Jul 28, 2011
Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

:-))))))

Jul 29, 2011
Bifidus Jones

Hello Nancy,

Just wanted to let you know I received you marvelous mail art. I'll be posting a blog soon so everyone can see it. It's lovely. Regards, Bifidus

Aug 2, 2011
Lesley Magwood Fraser

It can take 2 - 3 weeks for mail to get all the way over to Aaaaafrica! Never mind, it will be worth the wait I know....... I was born Magwood so that is a big thankyou to my dad, all the way from Ireland to Africa, there are no others here! But I think lots in USA.

Aug 3, 2011
cheryl penn

Nancy Bell Scott - your WONDERFUL pages arrived - altered books are one of my favorite mediums - that was what my thesis was on - PERFECT for me :-) X

Aug 3, 2011
Lesley Magwood Fraser

Magwood is my maiden name and Fraser my husband's name, but I use Magwood in my work cos my dad had 4 daughters so it was the end of the line for our name and I didnt want to lose it! My one sister uses Magwood too, Michele, she is a book editor and consultant and runs a Book Salon in Johannesburg, interviewing authors.

Aug 3, 2011
Guido Bitossi

I will surely send you something Nancy in the next days. Bye

Guido

Aug 4, 2011
David Stafford

Your basket of plums arrived today, Nancy. Thanks so much. I will blog tomorrow or when I find time. You're right...they do belong in Santa Fe.

Aug 6, 2011
DKeys

First off, I love you. I was having full blown deliurium tremens without a good stockpile of trash. And that this trash has a known story makes it that much better. Excellent art as well. I'm very reassured to know that I am not the only one who can't get my husband to get the right stuff at the supermarket. Let me know what your solution is for that one.cool timing is that I got a JB list in the mail today along with yours. I think we should all go to the store one day and buy the exact things on his list as some kind of pointless performance art.

Aug 6, 2011
Gabriel Xiloj

Hi Nancy, yes, love to exchange art.

Aug 6, 2011
PIRO

Thank you so much for the wonderful gradma Emma and grandpa charles postcard. I love all the vintage look of it including the stamps. The envelope is awesome. It gives me the image of you opening the old trunk at the attic and finding all this memorabilia and wanting to share. Aunt Julia Fever? Nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aug 6, 2011
PIRO

Thanks so mmuch for the IUOMA sticker. How did you knowi wannted to have one?

Aug 6, 2011
liketelevisionsnow

Hi Nancy - About a week ago you posted a photo of block type. In the background, there was a handpainted cup. I wanted you to see that I also have that cup. Here's a photo of it!

Aug 7, 2011
liketelevisionsnow

My wife got it from an elderly neighbor, sent something home to us in it. The woman went into a nursing home and passed away shortly after, and we ended up keeping the cup. The glazing is in excellent condition, and there aren't any chips. Thanks for the info, didn't know how old it was! It's interesting because I'm in NH and you're in Maine... must have been some that sold around the NE states.

Aug 8, 2011
David Stafford

Nancy, as you know....there's nothing wrong exotic debris...most of what I do falls under that category.

Aug 8, 2011
Nadine Wendell-Mojica

Hey girl, it's funny I've always hated my handwriting but maybe I'll take a second look. We took cursive when I was a kid. I never got the hang of it. The perfect curves and all.

Aug 9, 2011
Nadine Wendell-Mojica

So interesting you saw that 'E'. YEARS ago I was watching an Asian girl write out a check and she used that way of writing her e's. I loved it and used it ever since. The things we remember and use. I wanted to see all the ways she wrote her letters but she finished and left. Once again, I'm a copycat.

I used to use a ruler when I was a kid. It was kind of a fad at the time. That may have influenced me too- pulling the letters out.

Aug 9, 2011
Guido Vermeulen

Hi back to you Nancy, looking forward to everything, minimal or not. What's minimal? They used to describe the music of Phlip Glass as "minimal". Euh ...

Or Eric Satie? I'm quite lyrical I know that but people who can create a unverse with very little are highly regarded by me. Perceptions also change! You have the famous confrontation in Amadeus "too many notes, Mr Mozart" while now some musicians are declaring: "Mozart, that's too easy, but because it's easy it's quite difficult to play the wright way". I must have a conversation one day with Hélène Grimaud on that topic. If you don't know her: she's a French piano player, living in the US, and using the money from her concerts to raise wolves in the wild again. I met her a few times in Brussels and she's the most stunning beauty I have ever encountered in my "poor" existence. Google her if interested.

Guido

Aug 10, 2011
Thom Courcelle

Holy bejeepers, Nancy... your piece got here today. If Carl hadn't already cleared out my nasal passages, your fountain pen-scripted letter would've undoubtedly done the trick! Counting my lucky prayers and stars for so many wonderful people in the world making me smile and laugh... I gotta wind-up on the pitchers mound for the doozy of a blog I'm gonna throw in deference to your ASTOUNDING piece. keep an eye out the next day or two... xo Thom C

Aug 10, 2011
De Villo Sloan

Nancy, I'm glad you found Henri Michaux. He's one of the early asemic writers I think is excellent to explore.

Aug 10, 2011
Guido Vermeulen

Hi Nancy,

Part, yes, the recording CREDO by Hélène G is without any doubt her finest album. I saw the comment on Michaux (a Belgian who influenced me a lot, also Dotremont, but Michaux went further). Just made a comment on these influences in the Literature group. Okay, this means that our friend De Villo Sloan "knows his stuff" !

Guido

PS Do you know the femail artist Unica Zurn? She was the compagnon of Hans Bellmer and committed suicide. Wrote 2 great books: "Sombre printemps" (on her youth, she was an incest victim) and "L'hommeJasmin" (on her staying in psychiatric clinic). She had 2 men in her life: l'homme-poubelle (that was Bellmer) and l'homme-jasmin (who was Henri Michaux). This is little known. I have an original etching of Zurn at home (bought it in Switzerland). I refuse to put the work in a safe like some have suggested.

Aug 10, 2011
De Villo Sloan

Nancy, great news about the new materials you're working with. Can't wait to see. I don't know that Michaux did tons of asemic writing but agree with GV his prose is pretty interesting too. You know I'm partial to the Bryon Gysin-William Burroughs work. Cheryl knows more about ancient texts that are considered asemic. Geoff Huth (a quiet member of our asemic group) has a blog that is a kind of center for the visual poetry world, including asemic writing. If you haven't seen it already, it's a way to see what's going on in and out of mail-art:

http://dbqp.blogspot.com/

Aug 10, 2011
brunocassaglia

THANKS !!!! ti abbraccio . bruno cassaglia

Aug 11, 2011
Guido Vermeulen

Hi Nancy, Thanks for mentioning the Part piece, don't know that one. Yeah, it's a shame that Zurn is not that known. I did a bookhunt once in Brussels and only one guy in a bookshop knew Zurn, referred to her as "the sidekick of Bellmer" (Christ!). There are so many great women in surrealism and most of them are ignored: Zurn, Carrington, Toyen (amazing!!!). Unica was quite a sick women, incest victim, parents were nazi supporters, she broke with her whole family, had a love hate relationship with Bellmer (who did these rather obscene art pieces with puppets) and besides her pure love infatuation with Michaux (the Jasmin man) she stayed with Bellmer. Her end was tragic and she punished Bellmer severely. Bellmer could not walk anymore, was in a wheelchair and she jumped from the upstairs windows right in front of him in his wheelchair. What a dead and what a way to destroy "the man in her life". But her work is certainly (the 2 books and paintings and etchings) outstanding!

Aug 11, 2011
brunocassaglia

poetamailartfluxus

Aug 11, 2011
brunocassaglia

Quello sono io! sono tanto brutto da spaventare ? :-)

Aug 11, 2011
Lesley Magwood Fraser

Yay! It arrived and how happy am I! A great piece - I LOVE old documents added to mail art and I see you have managed to find a use for the stamps... FRAGILE is stamped all over your visit to the Maine medical centre, hope that is not referring to you! It didn't take too long to get here either, not even 10 days. This little booklet is a treasure - thankyou! Oh and did I tell you that my son's name is Scott??? So you see I also like YOUR name!

Aug 12, 2011
David Stafford

Latest effort arrived yesterday...stop...will blog soon...stop....can't seem to....stop.....thank you...stop....nancy....stop....

Aug 12, 2011
Lesley Magwood Fraser

I will blog your mail this weekend when I have a chance!

Aug 12, 2011
prettylily

Ha, ha, Nancy. I can't wait. Any Nancy mail is special mail, but a diploma - well that's extra special! Looking forward to it.

Aug 12, 2011
Svenja Wahl

:-) Looking forward to our exchange!

Aug 14, 2011
Karen Champlin

Thanks for friending me. Yes, please send me a piece!

Aug 16, 2011
prettylily

Great mail art from Nancy today! A cryptic asemic diploma (I think it gives me a license to do whatever I want) and another piece of Nancy's delightful art, for inspiration. Thank you Nancy!

Aug 17, 2011
DKeys

I know Nancy, it's totally confusing. It took me forever to figure out that the main page is where you can see all the posts etc. , and received artwork is posted at the blog ..does the status thing post to everyone?

.glad it arrived though and let's hope mail art and IOUMA still exists in 2034!

Aug 19, 2011
prettylily

TY, Nancy. It's great! IOU many times over. I forgot to mention the envelope. The total package was perfect. Each piece was unique AND loveable. <3

Aug 19, 2011
DKeys

Morning Nancy, blogger is so darned picky. I have had the same problem trying to post comments. I made a few changes and hope that allows you to post more easily. let me know thought and I'll keep trying:) all the best

D

Aug 19, 2011
Ruud Janssen

Hi Nancy,

After my vacation I found your envelope with the 2 stickers! They are great. An answer is on its way already.... Thank you

Ruud

Aug 19, 2011
DKeys

woo hoo! My mind is spinning now wondering what it could be. A hoarding specialist? :) you helped give me a push for doing the blog so thank you for that. Hope you have a great weekend!

Aug 19, 2011
DKeys

LOL. I have always said that my odds of winning the lottery are the same whether I buy a ticket, or just wish for it to fall out of the sky. Are you saying you're a hermit? If so, it works for you as you are so thoughtful and creative. But thanks for the thought. My art space is actually about a 2 foot by 2 foot area and it is definately in need of some decluttering:)

Aug 20, 2011
Jim Lampe

Thank you, Nancy!

I look forward to your correspondence!

Aug 20, 2011
Jim Lampe

Well thank you very much!!

I am working on a few projects, and will send you something here soon!

Aug 20, 2011