| EUROPEAN TRAVEL DIARY 1995 Part II Wednesday, May 10, 1995: Wellen-Paris. Wake up at 8:30AM. Breakfast with Guy, Nadine and Bill. Guy gives me a letter from Jos� VdBroucke saying he will attend Guy's artistamp exhibition opening and is sorry Gaglione and I will have left. Take printed matter to the local Post Office to ship back to the United States. There is a problem with the weight so we have to go back to Guy's house to repack them. Guy tells us he has continual problems with the local Post Office. They dislike the fact that he knows the rules better than they do. Pack up several of Guy's calendars in a special portfolio case Guy graciously gives me. Guy takes us to the train station in Hasselt. We leave on the 12:07PM train for Brussels. Once there we switch to another train for Paris. Arrive in Paris around 6:00PM. After a mishap at the Gare d'Nord with a too helpful Frenchman who relieves us of some money in the guise of buying our RER metro tickets to Orly airport, we check into the Hotel Mercure at Orly. Eat a steak dinner and go to bed at 12:00. Thursday, May 11, 1995: Paris-Dallas. Wake up at 7:00AM at the airport hotel. Bill and I take the shuttle to Terminal Sud. Light breakfast while waiting for the plane. Take the 10:30AM plane direct to Dallas. Finish reading On the Edge. Bill and I part in Dallas at 2:00PM local time. We have always been friends, and this trip has just brought us closer together. I'll be in San Francisco in two weeks for another Fake Picabia Brothers performance at the Stamp Art Gallery's Flux Fest '95. Both Bill and I are elated over our short sojourn in Europe. My trip to Cuba earlier in the year was one of discovery. This trip was one of confirmation. Confirmation that Mail Art and rubber stamp art are beginning to receive their due as the next link in the tradition of the avant-garde. Confirmation that the field of rubber stamps is beginning to receive recognition as a legitimate artistic medium with a history concurrent with that of Modernism. Confirmation that the history of Mail Art is being preserved by the likes of Guy Bleus and Ruud Janssen, who are harboring the history of mail art until the time the Big Monster knocks at the door. Read the mail when I get home: Saul Kallio Edmonds (Australia), Wendy Wolf (the Senior Editor of Viking Penguin-New York, NY), Andrej Tisma (Yugoslavia), Joel Cohen (New York, NY), Gianni Broi (Italy), Fernando D'Alexandre (Brasil), Julie Hagan Bloch (Hurleyville, NY), Art Popp (San Gabriel, CA), David Hornor (Brooklyn, NY), Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, New Jersey), Bill Stipe (Eur Claire, WI), David Crowbar Nestle (Jackson, MI), S. Lorimer (Olympia, WA), C. Steven Short (Glenbrook, NV), Erin Koble (Pleasanton, CA), Shozo Shimamoto (Japan), Paulo Brusky (Brazil), Stanley Marsh 3 (Amarillo, TX), dj (Austin, TX), Julie Shapiro (Portland, OR), Ashley Parker Owens (Chicago), Arleen Schloss (New York, NY), Miguel E Sotres Miia (Cuba), Dyslexic (Boulder, CO), Arturo G. Fallico (Saratoga, CA), Guy Bleus (Belgium), National Stampagraphic (Valley Stream, NY), Mus�e de la Poste (France), Diana Chase (Dallas, TX), Laurel Hall (Whittier, CA), AskAlice (Newtown, PA), Philip Van Aver (New York, NY), Reynald Droulin (France), Al Ackerman (Baltimore, MD), Pinky (Italy), Blair Wilson (Seattle), Jaime Weitzman (Ardmore, Pa), Rosemary Meza (Dallas, TX), Anna Banana (Canada), Catherine McGuire (Portland, OR), Malok (Waukau, WI). |