Patricio - The Celestial Scribe

My book is about Outsider and Spontaneous Art looking at it from a cognitive and psychoanalytic perspective.  We know that being creative helps to offset anxieties and we know which parts of the human brain allow this to happen, but there are a lot of gaps in the science and lots of areas for intuitive speculation and theory.  For instance, ancient civilisations used more symbols than words to convey the world around them.  Might modern Outsider art be leading to a new kind of language, one where there is no fixed interpretation of what is being stated? Is it replacing religion?   I am using a traditional method of hermeneutics to interpret art works. It has been used since the eighteenth century to translate religious texts, now it is being used to understand the unconscious material that gets expressed in other forms of creativity. 

At this stage I am just collecting biographies, commentaries and examples of peoples' work.

Hi, would you be interested in starting a mail-art correspondence? I'm new to here and i'm interested in sending you some mail-art! thanks

Look forward to it and will have something ready for you.

You did, didn't you--you're diligent as well as celestial! A strange deja-vu came over me, reading your message.

Sorry, Paticio. I am still on time?

Hi Patricia,  can't wait - looking forward to yr heavenly contribution - will certainly advise when received. take care.   (had some earthly challenges to overcome, but all's well again now.)

Thank you for sending me such wonderful Mail Art. I posted it on my IUOMA blog. I really enjoyed seeing the video of your interview & almost, sort of, understood some of it. Maybe Brazilian Portuguese needs to be the next language that I learn! See you in the mail.

Thank you my dear Celestial Friend!  I will be looking forward to receiving it!  Sorry I was not able to answer you right away.  I was in hospital for a week with a blood clot in my leg.  Have to go back in next week for other stuff to be taken care of.  Love and hugs to you in your beautiful, but hot, Brazil! Sherry

Thank You Celestial Scribe, I look forward to receiving your mail art!

Hi my wonderful Celestial Friend!  We had severe blizzard conditions yesterday, but it is bright and sunny today!!!  I am feeling so much better!  Wish me luck during the next week for good weather and good news.  I am sending you some mail art via the eagle flight express.  I will tell him to be careful with your package so as not to tear it with his claws!  Hugs from Alaska, Sherry

Thank you, I shall look forward to receiving it.  Chris

Wauw - just saw I made you a "woman"...... I think Patricio suits you better...... Sorry for the typo - Still looking forward receiving your M.A.

Thanks Patricio for the enveloppe received today! Your MA are always incredibly stylish...& I like the little thread who seems make the link and the ribbon gift package !
Anyway Batman and myself keep an eye on each other and we'll see if one looks down before the other ! A bientôt.

Hi Patricio, this is great ! I hope you're going to San Francisco by taking Highway 1, definitively my favorite! If you pause in Monterey bay, there are many whales right now and they are sometimes visible from the road. What's your program and you are in the area for how long? At the same time that the Dalai Lama, sure it's a celestial sign ;-)

Patricio--A 'whiff' of mail art greeted me as I opened my post box today. I am sure there was the scent of Brazilian breezes, a hovering hummingbird, exotic flowers and maybe a hint of bat guano. Wonderful complexity of imagery greeted my eyes and the bats added the whimsical humor that I associate with your mail art. Thank you so much.

Glad the bananas arrived, Celestial Scribe...now we wait for your bananas :-)

Have a good day!

Hola! Hoy recibí el sobre negro como la noche,me gustó mucho.Gracias y Saludos

My dear Celestial Friend!  Thank you so much for the beautiful package that was waiting for me, when I returned from the hospital!!!  I so enjoyed it!  I will have to think of what three wishes to make with my ribbon!  One of the most important things, I could wish for, I already have, and that is to have wonderful, creative, caring friends like you!  Mail Art is rampant up here in the north!  The whales have been anxiously waiting for me to create another package for them to transport to you.  So much to do and so very little time!  Hugs from your frozen friend, Sherry

Patricio, thank you for your exuberant note. I'm happy to hear that you and your partner arrived home safely. Yes, it was especial evening to remember, and both Esther and I were so pleased that we were able to spend time with you both--truly a gift of the gods and goddesses of Patland. You will be receiving mail from me in a few weeks.

Yes, I can send you mail art. I am in the midst of moving out of my apt. Please give me till May when I will be more settled in my new place. Thanks for noticing me.

Dear Celestial Scribe,

Wondering if the meal-to-die-for really worked, and sent you to the astral dimensions,  since no celestial codes have emerged from Terrene Embassy in Patland.

I want to reassure you and the Republik that I have an alibi, my hands are clean.

Thank you.

Miche is the shorter name of Micheline, my former neighbour and friend from school (some 40 years back in time).  We reconnected about 2 years ago and she introduced me to Mail-art.  She has no computer and she's also more into writing haiku (japanese style of poetry - 5-7-5 syllables). Very interesting, but nothing for me, I'll stick to mail-art.  (As a side-note:  something is travelling your direction ....... :-))

Was too fast hitting tht "add comment" button.....  Miche-Art-Universalis is her pseudonime that she uses on her artwork

.... and the Celestial Scribe of the Replublic of Patland guide us :-)

thank you for your message,i'll send you a my artwork soon

Hi, thanks for your message.

You'll receive something sooner or later on your mail box ;)

Celestial Scribe thank you for the beautiful envelope and art work. It was a pleasant surprise to find int he mail box yesterday. Thanks again.

watch said Terrene for a gift from a northern place in hopes that the south will pass along the way!

aaargh my laptop is doing extra  terrestrial things like disappearing off to a new dimension half way through messages....my original message said that when I was working my colleagues told me they believed I was living on Planet Pip and that I was angle parked in a parallel universe......SO? what's wrong with that! I will slowly get around to a creation....I will be in touch! Salute (with an acute accent over the e...if I could find it!)

By the way did you know that Britain (my birth place) is now fogged over with particles of  sand blown away from the Sahara mixed in with the UK's own toxic emissions....time for all those celestial and alien to start the evacuation process!!!!!!

Dearest Alien

your details have been gratefully received and the promise noted. You should soon be getting something from Adanaland by terrestrial real-mail

Hi Patricio!

Thank you for the intergalactic welcome :D. I would love to trade celestial mail art with you! I am currently a little slow with my production of mail art (life is getting in the way) but I will try to send you some as soon as I can. I would love to receive some mail art from you in the meantime though, if you want :)

You are most welcome, Patricio! Can't wait to see what arrives in the mail from The Celestial Scribe! :)

Thank you for the mail art! Much fun! Blogged here:

Bananas and Llamas? from the Celestial Scribe of Brazil

and crazy gal at "Envelopes" group, too!

Oi Ola eu gosto mail art por uma mulher

Irom Sharmila Chanu

Human Rights Defender

Security Ward

Jawaharlal Nehru I M S

Porompat

Imphal East

Manipur 795005

ela nao ecrive

eu ecrivo por ela

Sim eu ecrive voce por ela

Falo portugues um pouco

eu nao entendo portugues;-0

se faz favor voce dare ela mail art

e eu daro voce mail art

obrigado

tchau

I feel completely chastised. In English then the lingua franca of space time travellers. Ok this is the plan. I am trying to organize a prison break. And I figure a celestial scribe could come in handy in case there was a knife fight but this is unlikely. I just figure between me and a celestial scribe you'd be better. I am assuming in your intergalactic travels the story will be familiar. My gel is imprisoned in a dungeon in the foothills of the Himalyas. She's been imprisoned for 13 years on indefinite detention without trial. She is a follower of a dead Indian called Mohandas K Gandhi who read Tolstoy and the Gita and got kicked out a train when he was a young barrister and decided to make the world a safer place through non-violent assertive compassion which he called satyagraha. She thinks she can help her people the Manipuris basically by stopping it from being legal to rape, gang rape or murder them if you are soldier sent to protect them. Sometimes I have to give a lot more explanation but given you are the Honorary Consul for the Terrene Embassy boy have I been trying to get through to consular help there for ages. Well I was hoping you could send her some mail art. I figure something simple that sums up the quintessence of hope and love and transformation. No butterflies. Or anything. In return I have purchased half a dozen mad irish sheep coloured gel pens and I am going to work on something for you. But when you are ready you send her some mail art and help save you know the plot of the magnificent seven with Yul Bryner and Stephen McQueen or the Akiro Kurosawa film about seven ronin who save poor villagers. Well you'd be like that only post modernist ironic. What I mean is. They have been keeping her in solitary confinement to try to break her spirit. I think they succeeded but she became stronger. It's apparently how a lotus germinates. They look like dragon eggs and stay dormant for ages until a lightening strike or something tries to smash it. Then they start to grow. But they only grow in muddy fetid still waters. They get no nourishment from fresh water. Then the lotus flowers and the awakened one sits on top of but you must have heard that tale before. So that's it really. If you want to read about her or need more info I can try say more. But it's really. She's a simple beautiful woman and she has agreed to marry me. I am more the idiot useless son of swaran deep. But in order to win her hand I need to get her out of prison. And that's where you come it. You do mail art. That's what I ask of you. Once the festivals start here in Portumna I'll send you some more arty stuff. I'll try send you a summary in art form but i have absolutely no talent for art. I don't have any talent for lobbying or prison breaks but I am all she's got for now. So if you are still in. Glad to have you on board. I figure she gets some art work from the Republic of Patland Brazil and that will set the censors in a tizzy. And she will know that I love her. It's sort of trouvere, troubadour minnesinger work but mail art and to be sent to Irom Sharmila Chanu

Human Rights Defender

Security Ward

Jawaharlal Nehru I M S

Porompat

Imphal East

Manipur 795005

India

You mean I've hit level five duolingo portugues and I still don't have enough fluency to organize a prison break in Portugues. ay caramba se necesita una poca de gracia.
Una poca de gracia por mí, por ti ay ariba ay ariba por ti seré, por ti seré por ti seré.

Next you'll tell me that's not even portugues. What do you say your excellency.

Thanks for your beautiful mail art! inspiring as usual.I will practice what you breach. (...yes, I know...you can't remember what you said!! Dont worry it was all good and meaningful to a mail artist - thank you.) Beautiful bordered. and yet borderless! Brilliant!

I mailed you something Sunday afternoon. Wonder how long the mail journey from California to Curitiba takes. Two weeks? Three weeks? Guess I'll find out.............

I have just finished making a collage just for you! will send soon!

Thank you for your warm welcome and welcome home, hope you had a great galactic adventure.  Now that you are back, I will see what I can do about sending off some Mail Art. If it travels through the ionosphere and back, just pray it doesn't get sucked into a worm hole.  Thanks again and looking forward to trading with you. 

Its just a nickname - someone described it as industrial,yet poetic,which I quite like. It started off just petal - but I thought it was a bit fragile sounding - so I added the petrol!!

I hope I can send soon! bye!

:D