passed away (décédée / verstorben ) on March 9 , 2006

+ + + + + +

On May 7, 2004, invited by Baudhuin, I met this great ( mail ) artist for the first time and I spent a truly

pleasant and informative afternoon in his sweet home in Habay La Neuve, Belgium.

In mail art since the end of 2002, it was even the first time I met a "real" mail artist, a man who knows what

he's talking about, for he started his MA-activities in 1985 ...

I left Baudhuin with my promise to publish the following text on my site.

Baudhuin has no homepage.

Follows the text, - his text .

Le 7 mai 2004, invité par Baudhuin, j'ai rencontré ce grand artiste ( postal ) pour la première fois, et je

passais un après-midi vraiment sympathique et instructif en sa demeure fort accueillante à Habay La Neuve,

Belgique.

Dans l'art postal depuis la fin de l'an 2002, c'était-là même la toute première fois que je rencontrai un "vrai"

artiste postal, un homme qui sait de quoi il parle, puisqu'il commençait ses activités "MA" en 1985 ...

Je quittai Baudhuin avec ma promesse de publier le texte qui suit sur mon site internet.

Baudhuin n'a pas de page perso.

Suit le texte, - son  texte .

François ( called Fraenz )

MessagE   from

Baudhuin  SIMON

PIG  DADA

rue d'Hoffschmidt, 71

6720  HABAY  LA  NEUVE

( Belgium )

THE  MAIL ART  NETWORK  IS  ALIVE   !

LE  RESEAU  DE  L'ART  POSTAL  EST  BIEN  VIVANT   !

In " RNG  MAGAZINE ", from April 2000 to June 2003, I wrote time by time, in French, 32 pages

( month by month, except holiday periods ) about the Mail Art Network.

Thanks a lot  RNG  !

In each column, I added three Mail Art calls for three different countries and a kind of visual poetry, small size.

The circulation of these 32 Mail Art regular columns was 7.500 each time ( 32 x 7.500 = 240.000  !!! )

Here are the  HEADLINES  of these pages written in French  :

Here comes an envelope decorated by Baudhuin :

( Baudhuin & me )  received on november 11 , 2004

Here comes the cover of a mail art banknotes catalog ( see projects, one of pig dada's ) :

published by

( a non profit association )

Le Miroir Vagabond  asbl  

Vieille route de Marenne, 2

B-6990  BOURDON

( Belgium )

Interested in this publication with  80  pages

of texts in French and English ,

hundreds of pics ,

adresses of  408  participants from  48  countries , ...

???

[ cost :  -  Belgium :  €  5 + postage :  € 1,32

-  Europe :  €  5 + postage :  € 3,30

-  Other countries :  € 5 + postage :  € 4,51 ]

For further info, please

drop them a line, or ask

Pig Dada

Baudhuin SIMON

71, rue d'Hoffschmidt

B-6720  HABAY LA NEUVE

( Belgium )