Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Benevolant postcard Society & Saint Bongo



Couldnt resist posting this picture of these flowers from my own garden !
Taz and Jessie...familiar vases ?

My "stamp postcard " arrived in California and Lauren, the recipient seemed to be thrilled with it, then today I received mine from Michigan.I cant remember being this excited about post since I was about 12!
Each of the 350 members, have to hang onto the 12 postcards we receive [hopefully once a month] and then send them back to the originating Artist next year..Lori...she will be putting on an exhibition and has been commissioned to produce a book.



Its a great feeling to be part of an art project like this,as well as the immense excitement of receiving and sending messages of fun & good will all around the world. I had no idea when I clicked the "yes I would like to take part" box, that it would be so incredibly exciting...yes that's the only way to describe it.
I now have to take a photo of the P/C I received, set against my own landscape and post it to a flikr web site..and make sure this P/C is put somewhere out of Bongo`s reach.



This is the photo that has been posted to the Flikr website..the postcard set against the bark of one of our Quiver trees.
Bongo`s last major misdemeanor was to attack one of my favorite art books ..a really chunky one as well.
When we returned to the house one evening, all floors were littered with 600 pages of text and photos,shredded into tiny slips. Looking on the bright side..I could make an interesting collage up from the shreds which are all safely in a large bag...I just couldn't throw them away!!

Our neighbours told us last night that they couldn't believe how calm Bongo had become..they said how very grown up he was ...Its all a ruse on his part, part of a complex plan to prove us liars and himself a saint....In my opinion "Saint Bongo" doesn't have the necessary ring of solemnity about it though.

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