------ Original Message ------ From: Carlo Pittore Received: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:14 PM Bern Porter died peacefully in his sleep about 4 am this Monday morning.
Bern Porter murió serenamente mientras dormía a aproximadamente las 4 de la mañana del lunes 7 de junio de 2004
------ Original Message ------ From: Carlo Pittore Received: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:19 PM
The granddaddy of mail art, BERN PORTER, 92, is still at Waldo County General Hospital, Room 211, High Street, Belfast, Maine 04915, and while frail, is still cogent and eager for your mail art NOW. I was mis informed about Bern being transferred to a nursing facility in Deer Isle.
El abuelo del arte por correo, BERN PORTER, de 92 años, todavía se encuentra en el Waldo County General Hospital (Hospital General del Condado de Waldo), Habitación 211, High Street, Belfast, Maine 07915, Estados Unidos, y aunque débil, aún está lúcido y deseoso de que envíes tu arte por correo YA. Se equivocaron al informarme que lo habían trasladado a un geriátrico de la isla Deer.
THE MAIL-INTERVIEW WITH BERN PORTER BY RUUD JANSSEN
Started on: 29-8-1995 RJ: Welcome to this mail-interview. First let me ask you the traditional question. When did you get involved in the mail-art network? Reply on 12-9-1995 BP: I invented mail art, November 11, 1913. RJ: Why November 11th 1913? What happened on that day that you decided to start to send out mail art? Reply on 19-10-1995 BP: Sitting together on the floor of his 8x8 foot apartment east side New York I asked Ray: "What are you doing?" He answered: "Being myself." (the next question to Bern Porter I wrote with pencil on a two-color blue silk-screen printing of Ray Johnson) RJ: Ray answered "Being myself". So, who was Ray? I would like to know. Reply on 20-3-1996 BP: I asked Ray: "What are you doing?" He answered: "Being myself, average weight, average height, non drinking, non smoking, daily on the uproad to survival." I maintain at a library here "The Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters" and wish to have the complete set of everything you have ever done. Advise cost delivered to me U.S.A. B.P U.S. Dollars in bankcheck form. RJ:"Everything I ever have done?" That is difficult. Because all the mail art I sent out isn't mine anymore. All I produce is sent out into the network and I only have spare issues of magazines and copies of some pieces of mail. Everything I received and kept so far, that is something I have. Are all the letters you get (like e.g. this one) going to be part of "The Bern Porter Collection of Contemporary Letters", or is is just a "part of your life" that forms this collection? Just currious, what is in the collection?
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