Nancy Bell Scott

Hi Nancy,

Glad that the painting arrived!

Put more photos (of the whole painting) on the amusar blog

G.

Oh, to be his mother...and remind him of his medication. Good story.

We used to have many yard sales where this guy, who had this overpriced shop, would always show up WAY early, look around, under bid then leave saying it was all shiit.

thanks, nancy

hugssss

Nancy, urhgs, that's my terrible handwriting, "women who LOST their minds"  (or I was so absorbed in thoughts that I wrote the wrong thing? That would match the topic too ...). It's a series with pictures of women, something is happening to their hear (or mind), I'll see where this leads me to (maybe the club of crazy people?? ;-) 

Glad you liked Ray - and very very excitedly waiting for your mail!

Nancy nooooo, how wonderfulionistic! Just got your mail out of the mailbox, and I was happy just to recognize your IUOMA-sticker! And "traveling art" - rapid art, traveling art - lots of arts on the way these days ;-) And I have got a musical mail week (Cathérine's mail) and now your great card! Thank you very very very much - had you seen that it was one of my favorites?  I had to laugh about your comment to the Asemic Language, because it means that this will stay a secret for both of us??  Happy mail day for me!!

Nancy, would you believe right after getting this email from you the postman delivered your package!!! Can't even believe it came that quickly--you must have sent them trashpo express.   I am in awe of the things you sent-can't even believe you have such fantastic scraps laying around. Your handmade paper is gorgeous I will leave that completely intact it would be a crime to do anything other. Your painted text pages are just amazing don't know how you get that slick finish. Really, you have outdone yourself everything is quaint, rich, and just trashy enough to be trashpo. you're the best     thank you:)

Diane

Hi Nancy,

Thank you. This is what I wrote in a message to Cheryl about my asemics 5:

Kept my asemics quite simple. Used different stamp images and each image represents a letter from our alphabet; so you can read the images IF you know the code. The whole 8 pages of stamped images form a poem (on Fado, the Portuguese way of singing, full of longing and nostalgia and sadness 2).

I made some jokes in choosing the image, like a snake in the form of an E represents the A vowel. I mean by that "everything in language is convention". Most people don't reflect on that. Also some "inside" jokes, like the stamp of a frog (or toad even) represents the letter G, which refers to Guido (one of my femail friends in Belgium, Inge, calls me Froggy) but also to Grenouille (which is the French word for frog); and so on.

I brooded on the whole concept for a long time, the execution was fast, but the reflection process was more important…

It means also that I have produced 16 originals of 8 pages, non copied but stamp art 16 X 8.

I played with the idea for a while to create forms or frames for each letter of the alphabet and then fill them in with ink but 1) this meant a long process and 2) size of the paper did not allow these interventions; so I dropped the whole idea but replaced it by stamp art, same idea but different execution.

Guido

Nancy,

On FADO

Historical recordings: Amalia Rodriguez

Contemporary fado: Christina Branco, Mariza

Guido

Use YouTube Nancy for some samples of Fado

G.

Thank you for the very nice blog and hopefully no tears about mailart

Greetings Frieder

Branco is one of my absolute favorites!

Try to find the CD "sings Slauerhoff". Who was Slauerhoff? A sailor of The Netherlands who started writing poetry and novels (1920's - 1930's). A radical man (I guess "on the left of the communist party"). He discovered Fado as a sailor in Portugal and wrote Fado poems (in Dutch); decades and decades later Branco discovers the fado poems of Slauerhoff by the Portuguese ambassador in the Netherlands and puts them on fado music. This is a true story and blows my mind. One of her best albums so far!

G.

Thank you for ALL the wonderful tissue paper, oh, I shall have much art to do now! And your yarns and tissue overlays in the little book are amazing! What a joy to the sense of touch! I blogged it along with a few other boekies that were in my mailbox when i returned home. Thank you soooo much!

Nancy, your words so inspire as does your work. Do you or did you teach? Words are not my gift, so i cut, paste, draw and splash color in hopes of making up for this shortcoming.

Thank you for your commentary. Due respect dear woman.

Slauerhoff wrote a gripping novel on the human condition of the Chinese people long BEFORE Malraux (sic).

Received a parcel today from Nogueira in Brazil with 2 CD's with Brazilian music and 3 DVD's (movies): WOW! He always asks me stuff. I recently mailed him 2 books on Dadaism, so this is his way of saying thank you, great exchange!!!

G.