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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 3, 2012 at 5:47am

Whatever next? As Mrs Hirst said to Damien a few years ago:

 "Don't hang around the house doing nothing, Damien! Go and stuff a shark and put it in a glass tank and see if you can con someone to pay a fortune for it. Or clean out the pills in the medicine cabinet. Or get your friend Tracey to exhibit an unmade bed. Or just get out in the real world for once."

There are examples of the sewn, the knitted and the materialed around, but can't think of where you might find them. I exchange envelopes with a lady in my village, and she sews things on them, and makes some very good stuff using sequins.

Of course I assume you can knit. Can you sew too? if so, would you like to sew some buttons on my shirts, please?

Regards, val

Comment by stripygoose on April 2, 2012 at 9:45pm

Aha - you have assumed I can knit, which I can but only a bit. I will consider the hat-knitting challenge... thanks for the tips about others who sew and knit. I'm just thinking about experimenting with sewn/knitted/material mail-art. By the way I just read the discussion about what counts as mail-art (that old chestnut? but I am new t mail-art) and then I heard that Damien Hirst has taken up painting - whatever next :))) 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 1, 2012 at 7:07pm

Nope: it was a present to me from Katerina N. It's the hat that greek soldiers wear when they parade around the presidential palace in their weird ceremonial unit -- red caps with tassels; greek togas, white stockings:tights; funny shoes with red pom poms on them, and...machine guns.

I can't knit. I can't sew either.

My Uncle Derek was an actor. In one play, that ran for a very long time, he sat on a sofa and knitted -- a scarf. At the end of the play, he found that the scarf was almost 100 feet long. He cut it up into pieces and gave a scarf to all the othjer actots, production cast, etc.

If you like, you could knit me a hat. It would feature on my (Some people have brain cells...etc' Discussion.

Thank you! Val

Comment by stripygoose on April 1, 2012 at 4:14pm

Thanks - will do that. Did you knit your hat?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 1, 2012 at 5:02am

Bonjour! Vizma Bruns does crochetting, and might do knitting as well: ask her?

Val

Comment by stripygoose on March 31, 2012 at 11:17pm

aha - this phone box is covered with knitting - I love that. Know anyone who does knitting mail-art?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 31, 2012 at 4:43pm

Wow -- a psychedilic* one, how very nice.

I remember using phone boxes red phone boxes in the Good Ole Days, and the srvice was so bad it was... almost pscychedlic*.

Val

*I'm not sure how to spell this word -- the r esukt of too many trips, perhaps?

Comment by stripygoose on March 31, 2012 at 2:24pm

Val - another phone box! 

Comment by stripygoose on March 26, 2012 at 8:18am

Thank you Janine - I'm a beginner in this (could get philosophical here...) Anyhow, love your photos, especially the boxes where I guess you keep your mailart stuff. Do you hoard everything or collect anything in particular?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 26, 2012 at 5:22am

sp then, stripygoose, you go with other members of your band-to-be to think of a name for the group. After 3 hours, several pints, lots of laughs, a bit of aggro, etc, you agree on a name and write it down on the back of a beer mat. The next morning you belarily look at it and think "Flaming Eary-Wigs?? Noooooooooooooooo!'

What happens if you cross a sheep with a kangaroo? You get a wooly jumper; Ha, ha!

What happens when you cross a zebra with a goat? You get a stripygoat. Groan!

Regards

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