New Mail Art Call for Peace & Love

Mail Art Call – Peace and Love
Time is up. Peace is the solution. Loving one another and making this a compassionate world is whats left folks. Artists, mail artists and human beings wishing to raise awareness that the message for 2008 and into 2012 is PEACE and LOVE, please
dear Mail Artists and wonderous humans,
I invite your participation in a mail art call from Perry Hoffman. Just send a postcard or any mailable art to:
PEACE and LOVE
Perry Hoffman
P.O. Box 507
29 Palms, CA 92277
USA
THEME: Peace and Love in 2008
DOCUMENTATION: Exhibition at Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council Open Studio Tour 2007 on El Paseo in Wonder Valley
Blog documentation.
NO RESTRICTIONS
deadline: 2012 Sept. 18

The Smartest Man in the World is …you guessed it…gay.

This is an incredible article. The smartest man in the world is gay: Daniel Tammet, a 28-year-old autistic savant from the U.K., is teaching researchers worldwide about the complexity of our brain. But this gay man also has a thing or two to teach us about love. This article was in the advocate and can be read here.

Beautiful male lover takes a swim.

Sometimes we shorten it to BML. But really there is nothing like exclaiming to your partner, “Beautiful Male Lover, let’s …make lunch” or whatever. I have found this term of endearment to be quite dear indeed… and so for a year and half I have been BML as well as having a BML. …anyway try it out on your partner. If you have one, you should be calling them beautiful every day. Otherwise, why bother. And that goes for friends and single friends… works for everyone.

Harumi

That’s ALL I can say. HARUMI. “Eastern-tinged pop…” If you liked the Beatles or the Holly’s only you woke up in Japan. double click THIS.

Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness

Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness

Dear Mail Artists and regular people,
I invite your participation in a mail art call from desertWonderland. Just send a postcard depicting wildlife to desertWonderland
and by so doing join forces with positive energies to express the wish to keep wild areas wild for wildlife to flourish:

THEME: Desert Wildlife in this desert and AROUND the world.
DOCUMENTATION: Exhibition at Morongo Basin Cultural Arts Council Open Studio Tour 2007 on El Paseo in Wonder Valley
Blog documentation.
NO RESTRICTIONS
SEND wildlife oriented mail art, stamp art, postcards, envelopes, etc. to:
protect desert wilderness with awareness
desertWonderland
P.O. Box 507
29 Palms, CA 92277
USA

Fire Goddess

The flames that leapt forth from this fire created a beautiful fire goddess.

Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree

After spending a wonderfully productive evening in Yucca Valley at The Pottery creating buddhas and snakes from clay with my friend Maya, by sheer chance we went into the Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree to find that they were showing films. FRANK ZAPPA, in a film called Baby Snakes. What a treat. Alot of claymation and madness and amazing footage of Frank and his band. The Beatnik does this every Tuesday night folks.

Mosaic Workshop

Yes friends, it is time to sign up again for another incredibly fun weekend at my studio in Wonder Valley for a Mosaic Workshop. You can bring your own collection of special broken pottery and also use the amazing collection of broken bits in the “boneyard”. I will supply all the tools, nippers, grout and tile for your smashing pleasure. The weather will be divine. Bring a lunch and your sense of humour. Look forward to seeing everyone. Please pass this information on to anyone you think would be interested in attending.

Perry Hoffman’s Studio

WONDER VALLEY

 

January 19 and 20th

$150 includes all materials.

Leave the workshop with a finished mosaic

Please register early to reserve a space. Treat yourself to a learning experience that will encourage you to see and create in a new way, with a medium that has practical applications as well as decorative. This is the fifth Mosaic Workshop. Have you been waiting to tile that counter top??? Come take the class.

 

Paypal is an easy way to reserve a space and you can use a credit card through paypal using my email address… it’s easy.

 

Hope to see you there!

Best, Perry

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Concrete Bas Relief with Angel and Birds and Snakes

The new concrete work is currently being exhibited at The Pottery in Yucca Valley and at the gallery at Fi-Lox-See out in Wonder Valley. These were all created on Mesa School Lane in Santa Barbara. The materials were all schlepped from the desert to the sea and back again.

Concrete Bas Relief with Buddha and Roadrunner

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” Thich Nhat Hanh. I started making Concrete Bas Reliefs after a visit from my friend, teacher, and mosaic artist, Elizabeth Raybee. Elizabeth’s energy is always inspiring !!! Thank you. This is one of the first ones I created. It’s about 2 ft in diameter. After casting them and letting the concrete cure I painted them with nail polish and also goldleaf. Birds and buddhas and horses oh my…