Dean aka Artist in Seine

hi dean - unfortunately i will be in wales on an artists residency for some time including the end may / early june so not possible to meet for a drink.  enjoy yr trip tho.  sean burn

Good to hear from you. Dave Hunt.

Dean, last 4 numbers are unnecessary. 55987 is fine

1509 W Service Dr #203

Winona, MN 55987

   Dave

hi Dean, here is an invitation to pARTicipate in the SECREt eXCHANGE exhibitions...pass the invitation on to your friends, and let me know on my page if you will or won't be able to contribute...click on the IUoMA link  http://ning.it/lNK0vC  thx, Terry Reid, and hope to hear from you

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

Just got your great barcode card!  What a cool piece of op-art!  It makes me dizzy and then I have to take a nap.  Cheers!

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 ;)

Just got your Five 5 Themed card today- Thanks!!  Though it isn't a 5, I must say that Beethoven's 9th really should be placed as the greatest symphony of all time...

Hi Dean,

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

I really needed that laugh ;0)

I think I'll have to do it when the store is really busy, so it can create the most chaos!

"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

Thank you Dean! Sweet of you to say so....

Wotcha! Just in case you're looking at a computer in le sud de France, this is just to say that the Paris Plage Phone has arrived safely. It don't work, and i think I'll take it to Orange to complain. Last week my Orange phone died, but they gave me another one for €0.09, and tied me into a contract for the next 3,000,000 years. Oh well. Hope you and v are having a Nice time in Nice. Regards, JE Sweefoo -- who mailed you something this morning

The Slate is Great, Mate. Thankyou. I think I have been to the Olde Ship in Seahouses in a previous reincarnation (a Newcastle Brown one, most likely). Hope you and V are well. i'll be mailing you something back next week. Bon wekend. Val de Sigean

bonjour monsieur marks

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

I live in Minnesota because it's where average-looking people are considered foxy. Plus I get to be near the Spam factory. State fair line-up: Reba, Def Leppard, Steely Dan, Weezer, and Garrison Keillor. Cheers, Bifidus

Thanks to you, I'll be able to phone home, I mean phone an homme, or something like that. Mercie beaucoup! I can't believe what La Poste and the USPS are willing to do for you. Very cool.

I think a telephone interview is definitely in order for 30 November, if not sooner. I'll be thinking about the pieces that I made during the year that are my favorites, to be ready for the interview. 2 dimensionally yours, m

My mail was delived at 8 p.m. tonight and look what arrived! Thank you!

merci beaucoup for the mail art! will blog them soon MR OFF

I'm assuming that you saw the collaborative piece you and Kat sent me from Paris. If not thank you! seems you two had wayyy too much fun:)  Trashpo--mail art omens. i like yours better. It sounds mysterious and esoteric. are you a member of the trashpo groups? I hope so. I will tip my hat to your new name. All the best  yes good fortune in the year 2012

okay, after hearing about all that weird shit you've been sending, I'm completely taken with you now. You are heroic with these ventures. I try to challenge myself to send  3D stuff because I do get bored with flat mail sometimes. I've sent postcards made of lint, paper plates, pieces of roadkill sealed in plastic, large cardboard paper dolls, a box of garbage, spray cheese, etc. I'm surprised Val wouldn't appreciate such trash. But people in the trashpo group would. it's actually a cult, so leave your identity at the door:)

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)

 

Hasta la vista, baby! (well it makes a change from Bonjour!). I'll post my 5-in-a-line to Anna B tomorrow. Have you told her about this? I've now got 4 different banana stickers for the other card. I've posted you Anna's latest newsletter and info. Also there's a guy called Mark Sonnenfeld in NJ (and perhaps in IUOMA, but i can't seem to find him) who's an'Editor/Publisher' of a poetry/writing newsthing. I wrote him a (very) short story this morning on collecting banana stickers. Will he publish it? We'll see; Bon weekend! Regards, Moby.

Oh, Dean! Boohooo...tragedy!

Look what happened between France and Greece! The card arrived today.

Slaughter. Lost is the Eiffel Tower in its bubble! boohooo....

Although it is so nice to see the Paris streets again, and thanks for

marking the spot where you live. Nice!

 

Me shall wait patiently, while I scrub floors for my mean step-mother. 

(Though I must say...the stamps are FABulous!)

Dean! Thank you so much for the bar code art that arrived today. It is phenomenal and plays many tricks on the eyes. I had never thought of the bar code as an endangered species-interesting perspective. will blog this piece and send something to you soon. If you made this MA drunk, then it is particularly incredible:)

Dear Mr Spensers,

I got TWO from you today (after we had spoken)...€500.01 and a piece of non road-kill chocolate, t'other the Parisian way to make wine.

The latter seems to be a nice little vintage: delicate, crisp, with a nice head and subtle colour. That's just the Mam'selle.

The chocolate should i think stay on the card, but I've put the cent to good use -- it's in the Buy a Bottle of Parisian Mam'selle Wine fund.

I'm not sure that I can keep up with your prodigious output, but we'll see.

Regards from C&A de Sigean

Hello again! I'm going to send you next week a copy of jennie Hinchcliffes' 'Red letter Day' Mail Art 'zine. (It's my only copy, so i'd like it back, please). It has an article from me in it. She's looking for contributions for next year's issue, and i thought that you might like to contribute something on your, er 'wacky' stuff de Trashpo. And/or we could write something together.

The Royal mail always gets through, well sometimes it does.

Hasta la vista, baby, Val

What an amazing creation! Thank you Dean - we love your work. What a great addition to our IUOMA collection. We will mail to you next.

Bonsoir! Sad to say, but there was no grape attached. My comments were related to the young girld and:or the grapes & vendange. I was going to suggest that you send the grape again, but on second thoughts a disused Soviet a-class sub would be more of a challenge for you. Regards, Val -- who wonders if you are Mr Spencer's Marks yet?

Thank you, Dean....banana bingo has arrived and FABULOUS envelope! (blogged it at main page) Great work! 'Love it! xxx

Hi Dean, barcode variation 047 has arrived. Not a barcode fan before, I'm now convinced that they're human and have limitless potential. Cool card, thank you! It  seems like I know you after seeing you and Katerina drinking and arting in the cafe. I will send you MA soon.

Thank you, Dean, and uh oh, what does "yard" mean? Translation one way or another, I'm not sure! Unless you're being literal, heh heh. Absolutely, I more than don't mind receiving your wacky MA--I love it. Please keep me on your list ... sending you something in the next few days.

I saw that and thought of you. So glad you like it. I think they call those beer bras, but not really sure. We had it for soda. I don't drink so don't have nearly as much fun as you do. You should be getting something else from me. Both were mailed at the same time. Both are equally ridiculous:)
D

Sure you can use it--it was a happy reunion earlier this month at my brother's house in upstate NY--magical time, really--we aging hippies hadn't been together all at once in 10 years. 4-day holiday for you! Well you'll need it with 3 Halloween formals to attend. You probably saw yarn in a book I made for Katerina. I actually don't use yarn much, it just happened to be sandwiched between tissue papers I stained a few years ago as an experiment. Receiving anything from you again will be a treat, and you're up on my list. Thanks Dean ~

Hey Dean, could you send a link to it? Can't find it between the eight million blogs etc.

Dean, great piece you sent to Erni. you are clever beyond words. I like the idea of seeing deer, it's the gentler, kinder side of Bifidus. Cheers.

Happy Halloween in Paris!

(and send me any extra fruity stickers?)

Going Bananas!

#059 arrived in today's mail - what a song fest we had. We are spreadin' the news!! I'll post an image soon. Merci beaucoup big time.

Dean,  hope your are sending to Korea:  http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/send-to-the-secret-exchange 

or

https://www.facebook.com/groups/157924880955229/184434991637551/#!/...