Dean aka Artist in Seine

Bonjour Dazed Dean de Brussels! Thanks for the card -- typically loony, and yet another Dean Special. I spent aout 20 years of my working life in and around Brussels and the EEC/EU. Ah! those were the days -- best forgotten, I assure you.

When, or if, I can drag myself away from Life on the Beach, I will mail you something back. If I don't get my Mail Art organised, then I will mail you a Tourist back, because we have too many of them here.

Hope you are both well.

Regards, Val

Bonjour! Indeed 5 out of 6 ain't bad, aka the Vendange Tardive has arrived well and safely and even before the vendange has begun here.Shall I try and find you a job picking grapes? Thanks for the 4 lil grapes and all the info about Mr & Mrs Bonaparte. Will send you something back soon, when I can drag myself away from my Sea Monsters and the each.

Much gracias and Mercy buckets!

Hasta ma vista, Baby! Val

Thanks for your comment! I know I would be lost without my scanner, though I have not been keeping up with my documentation again. I just posted a few images of cards I sent to Val. Enjoy!

Josephine Bonaparte has arrived in Wales! Not as a zombie, thankfully, but as a rather large piece of mail art ;)

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/josephine-bonaparte-from-dean-m...

Thank you, Dean!

Bonjour! The megasize study of Josephine Bonaparte arrived. It's is great, including Nemo-stamp. Thank you

Bonjour!

Whre are you Robert Louis Marks?

I got your Les Anes du Val card today: thankyou!

I don't have anes, I have chevaux -- 2 of them in my Citroen 2CV.

Mail Art Martha has been and gone. I will tell you about her sometime.

I'm going to Holland for a few days tomorrow.

meanwhile, something is in the post for you.

Hope you and Vanessa are well.

Hasta la vista, baby!

 Val

Bonjour Dean,

thank you very much the Barcode Op. 096. Amazing idea!

See you next in the mailbox!

Susanna

Hello Dean - wow, thank you for the biggest mailart I've ever received. Fantastic happy cows and barcodes - the whole family was intrigued! See you soon in the post again :>)

Dean - you featured in toady's mini-gallery :>)

voici ma proposition : envoie moi du texte , max A4 pour ma revue fenètre ;

tu crois ne pas avoir de texte pret : va quelque part dans le quartier des galeries , collecte quelques propos imprimés interessants pour la revue fenetre !

It just hit:  the thing that disappeared from the big mailbox where you live over two months ago really must have been what I sent you, Dean. It was a glove. It was in bad shape, and your neighbor no doubt tossed it into the trash--even though it had your name and address and stamps on it. You sent me a gorgeous glove from the streets of Paris earlier in the year, and I'd hoped to respond in kind, but the only glove that turned up in southern Maine was ill. Still, it had potential, so I soaked it in cleansing liquids for many days and sent it to you in July. Here you will see it, via computer image:I will make up its loss to you somehow.

yves maraux said…   

The Killer Colour Test Patterns have arrived, but there's no telling how many postal workers met their makers on its way.

Thank you Dean, you made me smile :) Blogged here: http://www.purplepepperdesign.co.uk/mail-art-monday-killer-colour-t...

Thanks for the great art-card..absolutely great!!!! -jim

Hello Dean, your work has been selected for The Unexpected: Art in Transit, a postal art exhibit at the Basch Gallery in Sarasota, Florida. The following pieces of yours are listed in the collections, contributed by Sandra Lefever and Sarah Carter.

- Barcodes Are Human Too,  Paper Collage on Postcard, Received Jan 25, 2012

Learn more about the show here. We already have these pieces in the inventory on loan from the collectors. Please let me know if you have any questions! Photos will be provided.

Thanks, The Unexpected curatorial team.

Thanks Dean: you are very lucky to have received something from De Velo Sloan.

I WISH HE WOULD SEND ME SOMETHING

I fear that I wish in vain.

Bon weekend, Val

Hi Dean, I am quite new here and having lots of fun. I loved your potato performance piece, had me in stitches. I think I will have to send you something soon! Have a great day!

Thanks Dean for the lovely collage. Now it is in the Clouds.

So you have been around Christmas markets, lucky fellow!

I must try Little Miss X banana drink, it sound sehr gut schmeckt.

Merci beaucoup for Les Mims. I always enjoy seeing my name in LARGE LETTERS! Thanks.

Dean, your amazing card arrived. Fantastic! What a labour of love! Taking raised letters to a new level. I will have to make sure I take good pictures to capture it for the blog. Thank you so much, it has me smiling every time I look at it!

Yes, tonight, Dec.5, is Chuck's exhibit...I would love to be there.

His "Crime" evidence sounds fascinating...'would love to get one.

'Hoping that Mim will post some pics of tonight's event...great article here:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/entertainment-life/arts-literature/sca...

Hi Dean! Got your StraBburg (I don't have the scharves S!!) postcard! Thankx! You lucky traveller!

But I just keep looking at my eggs!! What a corker you are!!! What was your idea of displaying them, I have them leaning up against a Veuve bottle (empty oh well...)Got any better ideas?

 Now, why is everyone Erni?? Did he die or something? I'm getting so confused tonight, who is who?

Glad you like that photo, it give me a lot inspiration too.

Always good to hear from you Dean - thank you. You're in my mini-gallery : > )

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/today-s-mini-gallery?x...

Dean, I got your Raised Letters! How cool is that! Thank you!!

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mail-received-dean-mark

Thanks Dean for your Xmas is it art or is it not postcard. I'm going to blog it soon. Take care!

Hi Dean, I've been meaning to send you this link in case you don't know this sad news!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/12/13/woodland-bar-code-obi...

Figgy is making a reply to your wonderful mail art.  She will be blogging in my space soon too!

Dean, thanks for beautiful xmas card! Wishing you a merry xmas!   See you soon :)

http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.fr/2012/12/envoyez-moi-votre-a...

Hi Dean,

Thanks for the Erni Deco. It holds a place of honor as part of this years decor (Kat's is beside yours). Anyway, I posted it on my blog as well: http://sisterlouisek.blogspot.ca/2012/12/it-twas-day-before-christm...

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Exciting that Figgy's and my mail art made it to Paris. No mine might melt in the bath... I once wrote to a famous author about reading his book in the bath and he wrote back!

Dean weaves a beautiful security blanket!

To see more visit: http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/from-dean-in-england.html

Thank you Dean - now I am safe. I have a Dean-special security blanket so will be forever protected from all evils and pests. Phew : > )

Your Security Patterns have arrived securely Dean, thank you! 

Blogged here: http://www.purplepepperdesign.co.uk/mail-art-monday-great-expectations

Thanks so much for your recent mail art! My life is really chaotic right now and it is always nice to sit back and appreciate a bit of beauty that finds its way into my mailbox. Hope you are well and I'll see you in the mail!

I have never received any shoebox. What was in it, I wonder??

P.

OH, yes, OMG, so sorry, Yes I did receive that postcard of the shoebox top. It was wonderful. So sorry, I did not remember. I have not posted mailart to my blog for a very long time, and have a stack of it waiting to be scanned and posted. Your card surely must be in there. Last year was a difficult one, but I hope to get back to mailart this year. I "owe" returns to so many people, what a great community of artist we have, that keep thinking of you, even when you are not able to respond.

Thanks for the mailart and thanks for the reminder.

P.

Merci beaucoupement pour MailArt

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mailart-from-willemien...

Glad you like my banana encyclopedia!

Fab mailart! see more here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dean-marks-sends-spec-... and here for the whole story! http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/dean-should-xspect-som...

Dean! This arrived today, and it is post marked December 8, 2012?

Whahoo! It did ARRIVE (a bit tattered) and so "left over"! Thanks xxx

Dean is already celebrating?

January 28 is his birthday, tomorrow, Monday,

but, hey...he can enjoy the whole week, why not!

Happy, happy, Dean! xxx

In honor of Dean's birthday, thought i would share my most favorite MA from him. 

Happy Birthday Dean! 

Wishing a very special person a very special day. Happy birthday Dean!

Happy birthday greetings from Greece, Dean! XRONIA POLLA!

Party time for Dean! Here comes the birthday cake:

in Paris? Champagne, of course...or wine :-)