Trouble at the Lake 16/25 - Tofu

Overjoyed to receive this map study from Tofu, as I am hopelessly behind in correspondence and am surprised when I get any mail! This haptic card goes one step beyond a topographic map.  I can feel the waves and water.  Tofu places me at the scene and in the middle of 'trouble at the lake' - (title on the back, along with Tofu's stamps and my address, boldly on celery-coloured paint.)

We've been watching a few episodes of a detective drama set on the Orkney Isles.  Patrick is obsessed with the place and threatens to take me on a long and torturous drive and ferry to investigate, .  I wonder if we should invite TOFU to document the journey… or maybe tofu would like to go in my place? (Just kidding!)

PS: I have begun a new mailing, so before long all the people who have sent me things for MSK and Maritime mail art, or just sent me something, will be getting replies! Phew.

A floor full of post waiting for me!

Here is a list of the people who I received wonderful mail art from on my return from Maine:

Dam Batai Graphitismes (France)

Rosa Gravino (Argentina)

James Wilkinson (UK)

Katerina Nikoltsu (Greece) X 4

Alexander Limarev (Siberia, Russia)

Artist In Seine (France/ UK) X 2

Robert Ridley-Shackleton (UK)

Richard Baudet (France)

M Nidham (Oman)

Tofu (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Dystatic (Canada)

Cinzia Farina (Italy)

Ryosuke Cohen Braincell 889 (Japan)

Maria José Silva – Mizé (Portugal)

Carmela Rizzuto (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

Theresa Williams Blue Velvis (Ohio, USA)

Matham Primary (UK): Elaine Elliott (teacher)

Owen Bloss (11 yrs)

Connie Bensley (11 yrs)

Jack Macleod (10 yrs)

Leighton Morisey (10 yrs)

Cara (10 yrs) x 2

Italia (10 yrs)

Emily

Luca Robinson (10 yrs)

Daniel Westrop (11 yrs)

Lydia Fox (11 yrs)

Jessica Farr (11 yrs)

Sara Roberts (10 yrs)

Most of this haul is for the upcoming Maritime Mail Art, a show that I will hang tomorrow in Ipswich on the waterfront at the Theta Cafe in Ipswich (UK), just in time for the Maritime Ipswich event! http://ipswich-waterfront.co.uk/ipswich-maritime-festival-2014/ 

I think I have added two countries since the show on Cranberry Island, so have more than 20 contries represented.  Elaine Elliott, from Martham school in Norfolk, inspired a group of children who she took on a residential trip to Scarborough  This is the second time these students will have shown their mail art to the public in an exhibition I've hung! Huge thanks and congrats!

I won't have time to blog the individual pieces until they come down next week - for the moment you will need to be satisfied with a postage stamp view!  Many, many thanks!