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Comment by Dr Chris James on October 23, 2013 at 6:15am

Thanks!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 23, 2013 at 5:25am

Hi Chris, i sent you a nother message that should cover this. If you have any further problems i suggest you join the Ask Anything Group, and ask something there. If you upload toa Group page, thene evryone in the Group will see it. If you ipload to your page, then only people who view your page will see it. You could upload to both, of course. And poosta a blog too, to reach a wider audience.

'Onward FRoggy-Ozzie Sodiers and Mail Artists'!

Comment by Dr Chris James on October 22, 2013 at 9:50am

I left a message on the 'Solidarity with Japan' page, but thought I would write to you here too. I would like to send you some art, but I am still negotiating my way around the IUOMA platform and while I know how to upload stuff to my page, I cannot see how to upload to a group page.  Maybe I just upload to my page and everyone gets the picture????  I know there has to be a simple answer to this; I have obviously missed something.   Also, there was no snail mail address.  When I can work this out you will receive something from me. Onward and forward!!!!! 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 21, 2013 at 2:34pm

Yes a s ense of humour is a necessary but not sufficent condition to be a mail artist -- especially when lots of them/us are pleasantly crazy. you will have to decide if we are clinically crazy, or whatever.

I try and keep my dealings with Mail Art and Mail Artists light, and not to (over-) intellectualise it or them. You can find all sorts of people here, all sorts of Mail Art, all sorts of art, all sorts of everything if you look hard enough, and contact or run across enough people.

On involverment in wider causes, spare a minute and look at the Griup I set up called 'Solidarity with Japan'.

Then send me some Mail Art, please.

Thank you.

Comment by Dr Chris James on October 21, 2013 at 12:24pm

I am learning that one needs a sense of humour in order to successfully engage with mail artists.  I hope people will appreciate my serious side.  There is a real mix of artistic expression in this movement and a lot that interests me.  Many 1960s/70s threads and I am of the opinion that what might have been lost to the surrealists has well and truly resurfaced again.  It is very timely too with the uncertain state of the global economy.  It moves me to think that a group of mail artists can run an event to highlight the plight of Greece for instance. This speaks to the changing mode of global communications, not because it hasn't been done before; rather because it is gathering such momentum.    Indeed, it reminds of the old socialist/feminist cliché 'don't get angry get active'.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 21, 2013 at 4:19am

It gets even more difficuly when you repeat the same message.

It gets even more difficult when you reêat the same message.

It gets even...oh never mind!

(I got 1150 or so post cards in response to a call for a Mail Art Exhibition earlier this year. I was 'drowning' in them for weeks. Indeed 'Onwards and...'

Comment by Dr Chris James on October 20, 2013 at 9:24pm

I have noticed that some people on IUOMA expect constant contact and I have been finding this difficult as I work. Also the volume of artwork I have received for the gallery has just been overwhelming. It will take ages to work through it all. Nonetheless, I am grateful and I will use as much as possible. Onward and forward!

Comment by Dr Chris James on October 20, 2013 at 9:24pm

I have noticed that some people on IUOMA expect constant contact and I have been finding this difficult as I work. Also the volume of artwork I have received for the gallery has just been overwhelming. It will take ages to work through it all. Nonetheless, I am grateful and I will use as much as possible. Onward and forward!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on October 20, 2013 at 9:06pm

Thanks again, Chris.

When we enter the world we all have a burden to bear. Mine was being born in Darlington. I'd have swapped that for an Essex label any day -- well a Colchester one, well a Wivenhoe one.

I spend most of my time on art these days, but only a bit of it on Mail Art. there is a tendancy within IUOMA to talk too mucj, and mail art too little.

From the last contacts i've had with the NHS (in Bristol & Darlington) I've reached the conclusion that it's 3rd rate, compared to health systems and hospitals in, for example, France, Holland and Austria.

Regards, Val

Comment by Dr Chris James on October 20, 2013 at 7:46am

I think Essex has always invoked fear in people, it has a long history of marshland witches all too often frequented by a dissident aristocracy.   I suppose being an 'Essex' women [I grew up];  has not resonated in my character [or my accent] because my mother was a grammar school student].  Also  the men in my family served as commissioned officers in the military and probably did quite well out of the war. I come from a very conservative family and for the most part, they were pretty comfortable. 

I really don't take the same interest in my art as I do other peoples' . I am a full time writer, social and environmental activist.   At the moment I am immersed in trying to save a temple built by an outsider artist. The council want to pull it down.  It is the only one of its kind in Australia.  I am also gathering material for a book on art and postmodern communications.    

The NSH has always been a luxury compared to countries with no universal healthcare.  I am surprised it hasn't been scrapped though.  The Government wouldn't dare would they; it was the only reward for a terrible war, poverty squaller and sickness.  

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