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going postal
Posted on Sep 26th, 2008
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 25, 2008:
I have a letter project going on. I was originally going to make letters to leave lying about to see if people would drop them in the mail, and then ran up against a minor obstacle: all of my art supplies, every single thing, are locked in our storage space and for two weeks we haven't been able to locate the key. I've searched every likely place, no key. And there's only the one key, so all those times I said to myself "I really should make a copy" are coming back to haunt me. So...to all those here who are on the letter list, this week I'm instead leaving postcards lying about, because really, I think postcards are even better. How could anyone resist reading them? But will they drop them in the mail? We'll see, I'm seeding them around town today with Little Bit.
So now Krissy got a nice art box for all our supplies and it's my job to break into the storage space this weekend (I'm good with padlocks, or rather, bad with padlocks I guess) and replace the keyless lock with a new combination one, so unless I lose my mind I'll always be able to get in. And I can have my stuff here. Now all I need is a cat-proof portfolio for paper and I'm set.
Letters sent through the mail or tucked into a pocket or slipped between the pages of a book are in a different world from email. In some ways, email is more demanding. All you can rely on for charm is the power of words. But physical, tangible missives - to touch someone's handwriting, to tuck a leaf or a feather in the envelope, to find the oddest postcard or send a photo as a postcard or draw a picture in the margins of the note, to choose the right kind of paper, to decide how to fold it, to embellish and play with it, that's an entirely different thing. I don't do it often enough anymore, but today I'm going to make a little move in that direction.
A friend of mine belonged to a circle of artist friends who did a postcard mailing to each other once a month. Everyone produced postcards to mail to the dozen or so other people in the group and Jon would bring all the cards he got and show them to me. They were amazing and clever and I was very jealous, but they weren't taking on any new members. (The last ones Jon sent out before he moved and I didn't get to see them anymore were made by taking molded paper like those egg cartons and flattening it in a gigantic press - he did metal work, so he had cool tools - and printing them with artwork.) That just isn't the same over email, now is it?
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I want to join a postcard circle like this now!
Anyone else interested? A smallish group is best (or else you have to go into major postcard production), but let me know and we can all exchange addresses and pick a day of the month. I would love to do this too!
Woohoo! I hope there are some other interested parties. :)
This is just beautiful, Jeannie. By the way, give me your combination. That way if you lose your mind and can't remember, I'll be there to remind you!
I won't be part of your post card group, though it sounds so much fun. What I do is, I collect bottles of all kinds, fill in clean water, chill it in my fridge, and whenever I go out and see someone who looks like they've been baking out in the sun too long - believe me there are lots of them - I give them a bottle of cold water, I love the look of relief on their faces. Most of them can't afford cold water here. What I might do is make interesting labels and paste them on the bottles - maybe just a 'Smile - the best things in life are free' type message..
OOh, yes I'd love to be part of going postal, what a great project! & reading now, I realise i forget to give you my adress for the pick me up letter/postcard thingie..can i still get in on that pretty please?
Tara, yes of course. And that would make three of us then so far. If you and Emma email me your addies I'll start a list we can forward around to hopefully a few more people. I'll leave something for you next week. Friday I dropped half a dozen cards around town. I was going to take pics of where they were left but instead made a list because I thought photographing a postcard left lying on a table might skew the results as it would cause people to take notice, you know?
Praveer, that's such a lovely idea! These days here I'd want someone to bring me a cup of hot tea though - I love this chilly weather.
I'll email you and I'll see if anyone else I know wants to join in.
I've got too many other commitments right now to join in, but I hope y'all blog like crazy about how this postal project pans out so I can live vicariously. Jeannie, you're just so lovely … . and cool as all get out!
I'd love to participate in the postcard circle!!!! I'll send you my postal address too Jeannie - if you'll have me!
oooh I have some good ones in my collection … that I'd love to share with you all!
peridot
Oh Peri, yes please come and play with us. I just excavated all my art supplies yesterday from our storage and I'm feeling all frisky about it. I was in withdrawal for a while there.
please count me in. I love this!!! and praveer – I love the water idea. How wonderful! I bet people think you are an angel. :-)
“(I'm good with padlocks, or rather, bad with padlocks I guess)
I love your kind of bad. :-)
People put way too much faith in padlocks.I love the very last line of that link - being authentic is a bad girl thing and a good girl thing too.
By all the definitions on that page I'm a very bad girl, but I'm also very diligent and good when I have to be. It's a balancing act.
Tink!! I just came barreling into my apartment with the intention of IM-ing you immediately but, alas, you're not around right now. All day long I've been getting NYT email alerts about the collapse of our nation's economy, just getting more and more depressed. But what should my wondering eyes behold when I got home? A postcard from a certain bad girl/good fairy who's been littering the Ashville area with them in the hopes that some good samaritan might post them. Let me declare that hope is worth it. Hope is justified. Today I got one of your lovely missives and my whole world turned around. I almost skipped down the street. I wanted to run up to everyone and show them that there are good and lovely people in the world doing good and lovely things and that the simplest little things in the world can bring great pleasure. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
me too! me too!
I have to tell you something funny – when I went to the thrift store to deliver my secret note, I found a poster with an elephant balancing on a little beach ball on a the beach and below the photo it says, “the key to life is balance”. it's beautiful and I only have it now because of you, because without your idea, I wouldn't have gone to the thift store at lunch today at all. so thanks. :-)
I was posting my above comment at the same that Lil was posting hers. How cool. I want to run right home and check the mail now!! the me too, me too was about being diligent and good when necessary and bad too. :-)
I'm so happy you exist tink and lil and peri and emma and tara and praveer!
It looks like we really have a group! Will you email us all with the addresses with the group is finalized? :)
wooohooo! I've sent my post address to jeannie and dawn …
Jeannie will you send us the rest … ? Need any help let us know!
DiamondLil … I think we are friends … wanna?
Praveer you are soo coool with your water bottles … I leave water bottles around the park(s) on really hot days … for whomever (adult/child/doggie) … :))
Alright, I have everyone's addresses except Tara who has still forgotten to send hers to me. Tara? Are you there?
I'll forward the list around and then let's pick a date. It seems like, since the winter holidays are coming up, maybe around the 20th of each month would be good?
Lil, I had left your postcard sitting on a table at a bookstore downtown in the cafe (Malaprops). Dawn, yours was on the counter by the necklaces at this funky hippie clothing store called Street Fair. Did it get to you? Rosie's was on the makeup counter at Earth Fare, our whole food store. Hers has to go all the way to London though, so that might take a minute. There were a couple of others for people who for reasons I can't comprehend are not here on Gaia. (What is wrong with these people?) So far three that I know of have been delivered. Tara, yours is sitting on my desk awaiting an address…
I’ve misplaced my mailbox key. I can’t find it anywhere.
Adam has another copy, but we’re on opposite shifts. I’ll have to wait to see him tomorrow sometime to get his key.
the suspense is killing me.
:-)
Oh, and Emma's was left in an art gallery downtown next to the crazy glass sculpture. I would love to be able to own crazy glass sculptures but instead I have dogs and cats. Incompatible categories of things…
This sounds like fun! You can count me in if you still need more people. I joined a post card exchange once through a yahoo group. It was only for school teachers who wanted their classes to exchange with other schools to learn about the 50 states. It was a pretty big group with about 130 people. I'm not a teacher so I asked special permission to join. I am a volunteer for chemoangels.com and wanted to send post cards from all over t o my 11 year old chemo buddy who was going through treatment to give her something fun to read along with my usual cards and letters I sent. They sent them all to me and I enclosed them in my cards and packages I sent when they arrived. Each school did them at different times throughout the year and so they just kept coming at random. There was only one other person in the group who was not with a school. She was a Girl Scout leader who had asked if her troop could join the exchange. They also have a website where you could go to see the cards each person sent online. They were all sorted according to states. When I signed up to this again another year for another cancer patient I was angeling, there was a second group for world wide exchange. The hardest psrt for some of the groups was coming up with money for postage.
Tammy, email me your address and I'll put it on the list.I'm just waiting for TARA now, who has reminded me that she's forgotten to send her address, and has continued to forget that…Tara? Are you there? Get on it, girl.
I'm excited! I'm starting to dream up postcard ideas now! =D
Also, thanks to the person who brought up ChemoAngels (Tammy?). I had never heard of that, but I'm checking it out now and considering volunteering.
- rushing in here with blushing cheeks & red ears to go with it.. my adress is now (finally) available.. I'm at the mercy of awkvard timing due to the mercurian retrograde, what can I say? I'm soo sorry. Other than that, I am really excited about the art card project & see now that i'm here that we are quite a bunch by now.. are we making cards for everyone or will it be like send to the next on the list like a chain letter kinda thingie? & one more questione, the art cards we do mail those ourselves, yah?
You're welcome. I love Chemo Angels. They match us volunteers with cancer patients. You can be a card angel who sends one card or letter per week throughout their treatments or you can be a chemo angel who sends a small package with a card or letter each week. A card angel can send packages, too if you want to, but it's just whenever and you are not obligated to send the packages. If you are going to be really busy like moving or on vacation, you can request a substitute angel to fill in for you. You are not allowed to ask questions because the cancer patients are not required to reply. A question might make them feel obligated to answer. I have angeled 5 people so far and 4 out of the 5 replied anyway even though they were not obligated to tell me how grateful they were for my letters and cards because it distracted them from their cancer and gave them something nice to look forward to. One even sent a huge box full of Christmas presents for everyone in my family. The only other really important rule is to write just positive things. Nothing negative is allowed. They need to think positive to get through their difficult time and you don't want them to worry about you or your family. There is a yahoo group for angels where they share ideas of what to write and different gifts they send, so even though most of your letters are like one sided conversations, you never run out of ideas. They also have two sister programs. One is senior angels for seniors in nursing homes or shut-ins. The other mission angels to send things to missionaries in other countries to give them little care packages once a month of things they can't get to remind them of home (like hershey candy is only sold in USA so I send a favorite candy bar to one in Australia). My Dad was in the program as a cancer patient as well, so it was different being on the receiving end for a while. He was assigned two angels, a card angel and a chemo angel. He also received a shower of about 60 cards from special assignment angels when he was in the hospital. The special assignment angels also sent my family a shower of cards when he passed away. They were from all around the world and some enclosed little gifts in the envelopes like book marks, candy, and a pin carved out of wood that said HUG. The patients or someone from their family is required to check in with chemoangels staff once a month to update them on their condition and you can request the monthly update if you want to know how your patient is doing. They are really good at matching you up with someone who has similar intrests/religion so it makes it easier to write things and to shop for people that you don't know…as you can tell, I really love the program and could go on forever, LOL. Anyway, I'm glad you were checking it out.
Tara, I'm sure those blushing cheeks are very flattering on you. At this point we have six people and a seventh who I'm hoping will confirm - the plan is, we all make 6 postcards and send one to each person on the list and we each then receive 6 postcards back. I think the 20th of each month is good and would avoid the holiday craziness coming up, is everyone okay with that date? I'll give the last person a minute or two to respond and then send the list around to everyone. Tara, I don't know how to make those odd letters that Scandi stuff uses, will it get there if I use plain vanilla font?
aahh, of cuz, didn't think of the alphabet thingie & although i'm not the biggest fan of plain vanilla tsk, for the sake of the project you can type an æ with ae & the ø as ö. thanks for elaborating & yes, the 20th is grand with me.
20th is great for me.
Hi Jeanni! Great idea! I'd love to get in on this as well. I'll have to think about making really small post card sized painting/poems that are open enough to take in the dust and finger prints and lip stick smudges that may find there way into the painting/postcard as it makes it way on the journey from my hands to the intended?
Hey sign me up! That would be so awseome!!! :)
The 20th sounds great to me, too! I can't wait to get started.
jeannie, the 20th sounds great for me too! I'm getting quite excited about all the mail I'm gonna be gettin! ;-)
However … I am a little bit confused … so could you please clarify the plan? Do we leave the postcards (stamped, addressed and ready to be mailed) somewhere like a cafe and/or art gallery … a library, etc … for someone unsuspecting to find them??? and hopefully place them in a postalbox? or do WE (each of us) simply deliver the set amount of postcards to this wonderful group of amazing and fantabulous folks … (and you'll share a listing of everyone's addresses)
Thanks for clarifying!!! Either way …. I'm IN and the 20th is a great date (though I might fudge a bit and slip some into the mail … on some of the addresses I've already received … heeheheheheheeeeeee!)
peri-doooo wah ditty
The plan is just to mail them - my little leaving cards about town for other folks to mail was just my little experiment. So far a lot of them seem to have gotten mailed, which is nice. I'll email the list of addresses today (I'm giving someone a little time to respond because I'm convinced she wants to do this even though I haven't heard from her!) but I'm thinking we should stop adding names soon or it's going to be a LOT of postcards to make…
20th is good for me, too! And I agree - maybe make however many people we have now the cut-off. Perhaps in a few months some people will want to go on sabbatical and other people will want to join.
Alright, I have our list and I'm going to mail it out to all of you later today. I'm giving a bit of time for Rena to get her address to me and for Rosie's friend too, but I think this afternoon will be good. I'm already working on my postcards - fun fun fun. Hallows this year is just after the dark (new) moon, lovely for images I think. I'm so excited!
I had to pop back online to say I got the postcard today!!!!
How exciting! Someone mailed it! And it's a really neat postcard, too. =)
Hello fellow art cardists.. I'm leaving you all a note here to let you know that I have to pass on this mth's art card project due to a slipped disc playing up & hurting big time, forcing me to stay horizontal for a while. I'll let you know when I'm back in the game.. love & joy tara
Oh my goodness, tara! We'll be sending you good wishes for healing!
Tara - you might just get cards anyway…but what you really might want to get is an inversion table! Worked wonders for Krissy, really. And I like it cuz it makes me even taller…
tara – you are getting so much love from this direction!! I hope you are going to be better sooner than soon.
you might just get cards anyway – I think this is likely too.
and that inversion table sounds fantastic. my discs are all feeling just fine, feeling good actually, but I'd like to try one out anyway.
It's the only piece of “exercise equipment” other than my own body that I own - I don't count my bike, it's for transportation and the exercise is incidental - but it's very cool. Gravity squishes you together and not even inverted postures stretch you back apart as well as hanging upside down and using gravity to your advantage. Suspension belts are cool but they only really pull on things from the pelvis up. This little thing creates space in all the joints but especially the vertebral spaces and I love it. And while almost everyone gets shorter as they get older (once they hit full height), I've actually gotten almost half an inch taller over the last year! It bugs me that it's a “thing” and I wish I could just hang upside down from the ceiling like a bat, but I need some kind of thing to do that so I like this one. Never would have gotten it except for Krissy!
Tara, I've been there and understand. I'll still send you a card anyway wishing well. I ruined my spine from being on bed-rest while I was pregnant and then doing everything I normally did once the baby was born. The muscles deteriorated, leaving the bones to compensate for the lack of muscle. I ended up with 3 bulging herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, narrowing of the bones in the spine and a broken bone. With all that was wrong, it was just one disc causing all the pain. I tried many things and nothing worked so I had to give in and have the dreaded surgery. It wasn't as horrible as other people made it sound and I'm actually glad I did it because I have been pain free for the past two and half years now and thought I'd never be pain free again at one point. I hope you find something that works for you, but if you don't, the new surgeries are a piece of cake compared to all the old horror stories you hear from about 4 or more years ago. Hanging upside down sounds like fun. With all the therapy and things I did go through, that was never one of the things they did. They said the one therapy was supposed to do the same thing and it didn't work, but hanging upside down sounds more fun and cheaper than physical therapy, lol. I'll have to keep that in mind as I am careful what I do to not make any of the other problems I still have wrong with my back from getting worse. The surgery wasn't that bad, but I don't look forward to doing it again anytime soon. I'm hoping me other bad discs hold out until the kids are older anyway.
thank you lovely gais for your concern & suggestions. Yes!, an inversion table is a great help for this. I hope I locate a physical therapist who got one when I'm up & about again. It's an old injury, so I've been through the motions a couple of times before. I have been more than a lil reluctant to surgery & stuck to exercise & healing. I recently did a bad stunt on my rollerskates & hurt myself landing, guess that stirred up the lil bugger again. I've got the pain management set by now & giving it a couple of weeks to subside. This is my third time & surgery might be an option more so than mth's of painkillers like last time. Treniff your story is rather hefty, I'm glad the surgery went well for you & gave you a painfree life. Keeping your musles strong is everything. My initial injury was in 96 (also due to a stunt gone bad) & exercise has kept me healthy in between the occasional delusion that I am Superwoman.
everyone – please forgive my tardiness. I haven't sent any postcards yet. I was kind of sick on the and I have been going to see doctors and working all this week and fasting (which makes me need lots of rest). tomorrow, my day off, I hope to be able to get to finish those cards and get to the post office.
-d
and tara – I bet even superwoman has a stunt go wrong now and then. :-D
You're not the only one tardy. I am sending mine tomorrow. I thought I had them all done before, but when I went to address them, I some how came up one short. I wanted to mail them all together and didn't get a chance to make the one I was missing until tonight. I make my own greeting cards all the time, but never made post cards before. It'll be interesting to see if my scrap booking supplies, glue, and glitter gel pens hold up to the weather and handling. Let me know if they still look to be in good shape when they arrive, lol. It's Girl Scout cookie time here and as a Girl Scout leader, that's a busy time for me, but now the count is done and the master order form complete. I can take it easy now until the deliver in a couple of weeks.
Me too, I'm late as well. While I finished the poem last week the painting took me a little longer. I had to make a painting that would hold up after being torn in 20 pieces, where each piece contained the energy of the whole. The poem and painting are up on my blog now and I'll have the mailing out early next week.
I'm thinking that I'd like each of you to have a part of the whole for a while, say til sometime next spring and then I'll send you the materials and postage to send the pieces into the Museum of Modern Art in New York so I can have one of my paintings in their collection.
Well yeah it could be their trash collection!
Lol!
So you're loaning us postcards? That's hilarious.I actually got mine out on time, but I think lateness is the order of the day. Lil, I love your card, it reminds me of Wicked! Dawn - I'm speechless. That so rarely happens to me…
Hey Tink, I guess the postcard I left in the ATM vestibule in Harvard Square for you got tossed instead of mailed. It had a duck wearing red slippers. I bought it after finishing “Wicked”, knowing it was meant for you. Alas, eaten by the circular file …
Lol! I'm glad you like my twisted sense of humor Jeanie!
This morning I was remembering a story I read about this artist who snuck his paintings into the Metropolitan and when no one was looking he super glued them to the walls in the museum. His trick wasn't discovered for about a month!
Oh and I love the cards you sent Jeanie and DiamondLil! I think my wife was a little jealous and she made sure to place your cards by my spot at the dinning room table along with the ARP card that just arrived with my name on it! Lol!
Lil, I didn't get the card (yet) but I wouldn't assume that means it got tossed either. It might be someone's bookmark or tucked into the corner of their mirror…
Doug, should I put your wife's name on the next card too? A friend of mine start getting mail from AARP when he was in his late thirties and he used to get really mad at the mail and swear at it and tear them into pieces and throw them away. I was very entertained.
That's funny Doug! I get AARP and I'm 36. My Dad used to get it and my name went on his mail box as the executor of the estate. Now I get all kinds of funky things in the mail.
Lil, One time, I received a Christmas card in August. It was mailed in December and traveled to many out of the way to many odd destinations before arriving in my mailbox. You never know what kind of journey your post card might be having.
hi everyone! I sent out my cards on Friday, the 24th. I was in a rush and dropped them in a mail box … and as soon as I did it - I realized that some of them might get shred when they attempt to put them through the “postal machine”!!! You see, some of them had quite a 3-D life going on … and I know now, that you need to get those “hand-stamped” … sigh!
Also, dear darlin' diamond lil … your address came to me on a separate email and I've been off of gaia for a while and I didn't have it in my list of names that I downloaded one afternoon. I have since received your very wonderful card and am now in the process of making a very special one FOR YOU!!! You will get it soon!
Please let me know when any of you get one of my cards! It will be interesting to learn which ones survived the MACHINE!!! :)) and/or what they look like once they made it through!!!
tink … your card is so wonderful! Lil … so is yours!!! and now I have received one from Emma - wonderful. thank you … these are priceless!
I like tink's idea that we make an extra card for Doug's wife! That makes me smile!
Oh, yay! One of my cards arrived! :)
Emma - two, I got your postcard yesterday, and I adore the glitter pants. Everyone should have a pair or two I think…
I took Adam and Velvet and Ozzy and we walked to the mailbox all together. It was super dark. Our neighborhood doesn't have streetlights (yay!!!) and all the stars were out and sparkling. It was very crisp but not freezing. It was so dark we couldn't see well enough to tell which mailbox was ours and so we had to come back and get a flashlight and go back again. We got all the mail, the mailbox was stuffed to the gills. Then we walked around the pond and back home again. I saw three shooting stars during the walk. Adam started the fire in the pellet stove just before we left so it was nice and toasty warm when we got back inside. I just this minute finished sorting the mail and it was mostly election junk mail but one very special thing was in the big stack……….
a postcard!!! all sparkly and mysterious and gorgeous and magical. from tink!! just for me!! I love it. it has a special place of honor right where I can see it when I look up from my computer. I'll send a photo of it along soon.
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. it's beauteous fantabulous amazing. it draws me in. I don't know how you did it. I couldn't do it myself. so I love it even more. it's perfect. thank you.
I think I'll have a between 8 and 9pm walk to the mailbox many nights this week!!
now I'm off and back to my own project. 3 down, 5 to go!! thank you all for your patience. I'm not speedy or punctual apparently. please forgive me. I have some other good qualities. :-)
-d
Beautiful story, Dawn! =)
And a couple more postcards, one from Tammy (thank you!) and one from someone very sneaky and mysterious, not signed or postmarked with a city…hmmm.
Did Krissy decide to get in on the action? Was she feeling left out?
Tammy and Emma, cards received! I feel all warm and and giggly inside - how lovely this whole project is ; )
Lil, I'm sure it isn't from Krissy. She does all kinds of lovely things but I would know if she was in on this. Actually, I sent a postcard to her too. But guess what I got in the mail this morning? A flying duck wearing red shoes!!!! She's hanging in front of me as I type…
Tammy - I got your postcard! Yay! =)
Peridot - I got yours, too! One of the collage words was half-missing, but otherwise it was in perfect condition! =)
Thank you both!
There were two more postcards in my spot at the table last night!!
TY Emma, TY Tammy!
uuhh weee! I got a bundle of 4 magnificent cards from diamondlil, tink, tammy & emma, all in prime condition. thank you thank you thank you making these for me although I'm not sending this time around. I'm so very grateful & my heart is jumping & down with joy :-D Right now I've got them magnetized to fridge for easy to go display & I'll do a blog soon to show 'em off too. what a treat! <3
I've gotten postcards from Peri and Emma and DiamondLil and I finally found my own mailbox key!!!!! Hurray!! Thank you all for the beauteaous postcards. They all live right where I can see them from my computer spot. :-)
Yay! Dawn you got a card from me? I'm glad … I think I sent you 2 (sssshhh) and I hope you got them both???
I came home from work and appointments on Thursday last week to see that I had a PACKAGE from Dawn!!! It was a collage BOX … full of treasures and more collage elements! I love it and love exploring within it and around it … many messages and layers.
Also … I have received part of the whole of Doug's painting and poem … It's rich and subtle at the same time. Again, it makes me want to explore and learn more …
Thank you both …
I love you gais,
peri
Doug, I absolutely loved getting a part of a whole. To read a bit of the poem and know that someone, somewhere else, was reading the next bit, or the previous bit. I love being part of the collective. what a lovely idea. Thanks!
oh!! I'll check the mail today! maybe I'll find a part of a whole too?! peri I did get two from you. thank you. they are lovely. and i'm so glad you liked the postcard/box. :-) I had to make one for my roommate because she has been so envious of the packages being mailed. she refuses to open it because she says the outside is too pretty. I really hope she opens it someday because she might actually like the things inside as much as the outside. :-) and for those on the postcard list that haven't received a postcard from me yet, please, please, please, please be patient. I have been working and vounteering for obama and it's a hectic time, but I have several postcards in process right now to be mailed before the week is out.
xoxo
-d
peri, i love not only the 3-d but also the tactility of the thing. all those layers. the weight an heft of it. yummy!
Doug's arrived here today! =)
That's so cool! So 3 of the 8 pieces that I mailed arrived at their destinations. I don't know why I had it in my mind that the painting had to be torn into 20 pieces?
But anyway I still have 12 parts. I was thinking of maybe putting it back together again with patches placed where the pieces I mailed used to be, You know kind of like they patch dinosaur bones with plaster to fill in the missing parts to put the dinosaur back together again. But of course it won't be plaster I use but instead perhaps an interpretation of what you sent me. Oh not a literal copy like interpretation but something that would fit into a random red painting. And your words would replace the missing words in the poem.
I have received 4 post cards so far…thank you Doug, Tink, Lil, and Emma! They are all beautiful!
uuhh wee! my collection is complete & more than that with a mystery card added (did you do that one Peri?) Thank you Doug for a piece of yr art, rather innovative indeed & now I'll go treasure hunting for the rest of the poem. Happy to hear you did 20 pieces cuz I'd like a second, would go swell framed & put up as a lil couple (I'm ignoring the bit about you wanting it back tsk) & dawn divinest, what a fun card/box! I got the scalpel out to gently remove for rewrapping & got a look see inside.. color, texture, music & artful image aka a mona lisa puzzle made me smile big time :-D
Wow, in my spot last night was a BOX, yes a box! full of physical poetry, everything from glitter paint to the secret life of sealife, from the conception of Pi to love flavored ice cream, from Snoopy's scarf to a mysterious box of verbs.
I sailed to work this morning with the windows down and the music UP!
TY Dawn! I love it all!