Dean aka Artist in Seine

Bonjour New Friend Dean! If you care to send me something from Paris, I'll send youb something back from the Sunny South of France. If you're ever passing the Narbonne/Perpignan area, do stop by and say hello/bonjour. Regards from your New Friend Val

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just posted your Mail Art to me on my IUOMA page And my mim4art.blogspot.com. It arrived in perfect shape. Amazing.

Dean, last 4 numbers are unnecessary. 55987 is fine

1509 W Service Dr #203

Winona, MN 55987

   Dave

Vous en prie!

Those were a random set of rubber bands from a M-40 US Army gas mask kit.   Why they were in there....who knows!?

Bonsoir Puffin Billy & Vanessa, too, of course! Thanks for the card, and yes I think text can be considered mail art. The what is mail art debate goes on and on and on. If it's art and sent by the mail that seems to be OK for me. So text & puffins, sunglasses and whatever else you come up.

I'll be sending you something back next week -- mail art, of course.

The 4 x4 project seems to be very, er, confused. Were you a professional saboteur for the CIA or some organisation like that before you beacame a Parisian mail artist?

Bon weekend -- mine will be spent at vide greniers.

Cordialement Herman's Hermit 

Bonjour (and briefly 'cos i am beach bound...) Thanks for sending me the stamps: there was no need; in future please send €500 notes. Lots of them . Mercy buckets et cordialement (Rose's Lime Juice Cordial)

Regards Herman's Hermit

Hi Dean,

I received your bar code card the other day; thanks so much. I thought I might take it over to the local grocery store where there's a self check out and run it under the scanner to see what happens. I would probably get into lots of trouble, but that's ok ;)

Hi Dean,

Thanks for your "Five". The last bit about Maroon 5 really cracked me up!

I really needed that laugh ;0)

"Hey! I think I've bust a button on my trousers. You don't want my trousers to fall down do you?" Mick le jaeger on the Stones' Greatest Ever live Album, 'Get yer ya'yas out'.

Bonjour M Dean! Many thanks for the latest wacky zip card....and zip.

Do you know the WE Johns 'Biggles' series of children's books? I got one as a primary school prize circa 1956  called 'Biggles defies the Swastika'.

Your card could illustrate John's forthcoming work, 'Biggles flies undone'.

ALSO thanks for something else...which I'm instructed by you not to open until Friday.

I'll be mailing you something back at the weekend (I hope) Trust you and the Marksova are well.

Regards, JE Sweefoo.

Bonjour! Many thanks for the 'Vernissage Card'. Sorry that you and Vanessa could neither make it nor bring your green feathers to the show. I've never been kicked out of a nursing home --- bars, restaurants, clubs, discos, etc, yes, but a nursing home...not yet.

About 30-40 people came to my vernissage. I was the barman. There was wine and fruit juices and water. I served two yound (about 10 and 8 years-old) boys 2-3 large glasses of what i thought was apple juice, but which turned out to be muscat. the boys were very happy, their mother less so.

I might have gotten thrown out of my own verrnissage, but didn't.

Thanks again and regards to ye both. JE Sweefoo

Bonjour! Nice talking to you earlier today. That was the first phone call I've ever gotten from a Mail Artist. sorry i had to cut off the conversation, but we had to go out at noon.

With a bit of luck you'll find the two Zip photos below. I'll let you know when (if?) the Big Envelope from Blighty arrives;

Bon weekend to you and V;

Regards, JE Sweefoo

Bonjour!

I think that you should re-name yourself 'Three Dimensional Dean Marks'! That's cos your stuff is always in 3D format (boxes, sunglasses, PCBs, etc): all safely stored away.

I've just gotten your Belgian forks and spoons and ice cream ladle: THANKYOU!

Next time you and Vanessa go to the UK you might think of mailing us all some used fish and chip newspaper, complete with vinegar and ketchup stains, salty bits and perhaps the odd smearing of mushy peas. On second thoughts...

One day soon I'll send you something back -- 2D I fear.

Regards,

JE Sweefoo

PS you could be really daring and enter 4th, 5th etc dimensions of Mail Art

Sacre Bleu! Sacre Lidge! You shredded one of my envelopes -- but I'll forgive you, even though the shredded results reappeared as All Bran, and not Shredded Wheat.

Or -- thaks for the latest piece that you sent me. I sent you one today, so once again I'm owing ya, and will send you something towards the end of the week.

Question: when you go away (to the UK, Nice, etc) how much 'stuff' do you bring back for your Mail Art? Methinks it must be quite a bit, but I suspect you've worked out an excess baggage deal with Air France/BA/RyanAir/Vanessa Airlines.

'Nother question: did you find a place to buy in Nice?

The vendange is in full, er, swing. Soon there will be the new wine, and a giant piss up outside the Cave Cooperative.

Regards to you both, JE Sweefoo

Hey Dean,

I received your souvenir from the French Riviera. It's had me in stitches, so I had to write about it on my blog:

http://sisterlouisek.blogspot.com/2011/09/holiday-on-french-riviera...

Thanks again. I think I'll need to get "brave" and send a 3D something through the postal service;0)

Cheers. Louise

Bonjour! So...you've caught up with me in drag at last; i thought that was a well kept secret; I would refund your receipt BUT the ratio of wine to food (€13: €22) suggests that you ate too much and drank too little, so I'm not sure that I want to be associated with that articular meal. We girls have got to look after our figures, n'est-ce pas?

Bestest, Val 

Awwwww, such a nice little guy with his UHU stick! Are you really unemployed now? Great to get this card, waiting for Eiffel Tower, too! Thanks so much! (it is blogged on Main Page)