Mail Art Perfect

The Artist in Seine is the master of evoking something more with  few recycled bits. Here we have Napoleon, the fashion industry and the impressionists rolled into on. A.I.S. makes me want to fall in love on a Parisienne street, to lurk on the Rue..  to see the glamorous cavort. Oh to be anything but an American living the England!

Thanks for the deluge of sentiment! And it is Mail Art perfect!

unnofficial, unlicensed, un autherized pineapple mail art

The Artist in Seine, if you aren't familiar with his work, sends 'unclothed' oddly shaped, repurposed objects through the postal system, as mail art. In the past when I was exchanging with him regularly, I found myself curious about what would get through the postal system because it was as if I had this little voice telling me, Do it! Dean would do it. I was always looking for things that could work as mail art. Once I made a booby body that I sent to Vizma.  It was very large and slightly embarrassing for the postal staff in Australia.

So, getting this pinepple from Dean is absolutely perfect and I have begun looking at objects differently, again.

I like it this way too. It seems to have a face. It becomes a totem figure or a silly bird. but I wonder if the hand is voting.  Which state is that?

 I scanned Dean's mail onto black so I'm not sure if it does the barcodes through the haptic holes any justice. They are coloured too. This all makes me long for a plane ride, to gather up some mardi gras beads and to drink a pina colada. Thank you Dean. Send me a message on IUOMA if you've moved.

Barcode Restaurants

So excited to receive my first mail from Artist in Seine (if he is in Seine) for at least a year or two.I'm also excited and a little nostalgic to receive this postcard. It probably arrived right around the day we exited the EU. Long sigh, to be followed by pining for being part of Europe. and if Tavernas or bistros don;t have barcode paintings, then they should! They are very cool. I'll have pommes frites and that rosso di tavola will do fine.  Thank you, Dean.

banana stamps and barcodes - Finn Badger

I'm surprised I've never noticed how a bar code is like a frank mark.  Finn Badger has a great little repetition of form going on here, both in terms of colour and line.  One of the things about mail art that I love is the way that you start to see things differently when you think mail art.  

Every year that banana day rolls around again I lament the fact that I haven't saved banana detritus to use in my mail art. I wonder if Finn went on a banana eating binge or was super organised!

Many thanks and hopefully your banana mail will arrive/be sent soon!