Arac's Comments

Hi! I just posted my slides on the arty slide group if you want to see them!

Thankyou for trying to buy me a book of those stamps! I can't wait to see what Slidy Art you've made for me! When will you visit our Freak discussion again, we miss you!! And I need your help to name my car. I'll put up a pic there tonight.

Don't know what other stamps there are...any toilets? VWs? Or Warhol, Pop Art, etc, type of stuff?

Just make sure you use the Arac stamp when you send!!! ;-)) Seeya at V&Vs!!

I slow at doing much this month so anticipate a slow pace in response, but, yes, we should exchange some mail art. Also, in the past I've used clear acrylic polymer in various forms to do collage, but I don't think that's a good adhesive for mail art. I know someone has suggested a good adhesive here and there, but if you have any suggestions, I would appreciate it. I don't want to put something in the mail that would stick to everything else.

Oliver!

I did recieve it, thank you! I just haven't been able to post a photo or scan of it yet.

-AWJ-

Dear arac & toejam too! val says thank you very much for the jim bob card. he was a bit worried about all the muscles and machoness on display, but we told him not to be such a wimp, do 1500 press ups and then he would feel like a corpse. man too (we made sure that he fed us before he did this, just in case he had a heart attack and we had to go hungry). he's ok now, and says that he will send you something back next week when he goes to the post office to buy some stamps; and hey! you've been daft enough clever enough to join his arty stamp venture. we think you might be as daft as he is, and dean, and vizma and... bon weekend, from bianca & trouble

HA!!! Just noticed your Freak Flag Flyer header!!! Very nice!!

Congratulations Arac on becoming President of the USA slide group.

I just blogged you for your champion mail art!! Thanks Nutcase! Already chucked some mail art your way!! Seeya at Viz n Val chat for a laugh.

By the way, you are ON THE GREEN!!!

Bonsoir Arac and Cara, too!

I like your slide work..... it's great!.

My copaine has left for Paris for a few days, and in her absence I have taken over the ground floor of the house. I am currently painting 170 small canvases on which I will display approx 550 Arty Slides (doubles and singles) for my 2 Slide Art Exhibitions later this year. I intend to attach the slides to the canvases by double sided tape/sticker things, and if they don't work, then I'm in Big Trouble.

Incorporate them or use them as stand alone art? Either, or both: it's up to you. I use them as stand alone works.

If you're interested in what started me off on this, look at my web site, www.val-herman-art.eu under the heading ont he left Slide Art, and then under the sub heading Description.

Now here's an offer that you can't refuse (did I tell you this about Oranges & Lemons, too?). I have started a new association called Arty Slides International, and I am the President, Founder, CEO, Chief Honcho, etc. It has chapters in 3 coutries: Australia (Vizma is the President), Germany (Svenja Wahl) and France (me, natch). WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE US BRANCH OF ARTY SLIDES INTERNATIONAL?

The duties are not onerous -- you have to host a meeting once every so many years, and provide beer and hot dogs, but as we haven't yet scheduled a meeting in Huntsville in the immediate future you should spend more time on Arty Slides and less on the catering arrangements.

If you accept this esteemed position then we are a step further along the road to establish the genre that you mention: then what started out as one of my silly ideas took off as I found other slide artists. (I can tell you a story about how I nearly invented 2 words if you like, but later on). I haven't asked in IUOMA who else is interested in Arty Slides, but have just found by chance 3 others (including you) who are. The obvious thing, I suppose, is to form an Arty Slides Group, but you know my views about Groups.

That's all, Madam Presidet (to be, I hope)

Val

Hi Cara! I received your absolutely FAB collage yesterday! Loved it! I will blog  it as soon as I scan it. Thanks!