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Baren Digest              Saturday, 2 January 1999      Volume 06 : Number 394

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From: "David Stones" <stones@mb.i-chubu.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 01:18:11 +0900
Subject: [Baren 2460] Re:  Seals 

Dear Jean,

By all means quote the explanation on seals (maybe adding E.&.O.E.!) .

I'm afraid that the characters on your seal though are not so easy and you'll
have to go to a Baren member who can read Chinese. My (Japanese) wife can
"read" each character and we'd send the printed versions over the e-mail but
they would not come out at your end - as they're two (Western) characters wide.
Anyway, the seal is printed right way up... but conveys no clear (combined)
meaning and we'd rather not venture any guesses as there are just so many
possibilities.

The second one needs a little adjustment, as it is upside down... it seems to be
the same characters - but hand-written of course.

Sorry we can't help further, good luck...

Dave S

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:00:16 -0800
Subject: [Baren 2461] Re: Welcome 1999 

JULIO Wrote....

>Graham & Mary K. - Canada........You forgot the "eh"

>Hideshi Y, D. Stones, Richard & Dave Bull -  Japan (ASIA)
etc etc etc etc etc ......................................................
>the rest - USA (North America)

Happy and Prosperous New Year

Graham

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 12:19:27 -0800
Subject: [Baren 2462] Re:  Seals 

On the subject of seals, I wonder if someone can explain.

I was under the impression, and told, in Art School, as well as by several
artist that the seal used on a piece of artwork (Chinese & Japanese)
denoted a certain accreditation by an institution.  Sort of like a diploma
signifying a level of competence in ones work which allowed you to use the
seal.

Are we talking the same thing in the previous threads?
Does this tradition still exist?

Graham


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From: Bill Ritchie <ritchie@emeralda.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 20:40:00 -0800
Subject: [Baren 2463] Re: Thanks a lot for your answers 

Fatima Ferreira wrote: 
>Many things--for many people-- ...


And as so often happens, I retreat into my cocoon to ponder which
question I can answer in the correct balance of time and space of our new
reality, the reality of cyberspace in the confines of a studio where I
would like to be printing.

But I can not. On this day, due to the need to plan, to organize. Such a
conundrum!

Regarding the Opera, the woodcut workshop at Malta, we organize within a
world that has not invited us. It is like we are aliens from cyberspace,
dropping from the sky into a city like Valletta, unexpected, without
passports and with our carry-on baggage containing only a few
strange-looking tools for wood block printmaking in the Asian manner.

Were I to be the organizer, then a great responsibility befalls me! But I
am not alone. I have friends, as you say, all over the globe.

I have never been to Malta. I do not speak a word of Maltese. My passport
is expired. I have no airplane tickets for my wife and myself, and in my
imaginary voyage I think my woodcut knifes were confiscated at the
teminal in England. They did not take my baren and extra shinagawa.

Wait, I am dreaming of Malta again.

Fatima, there is much to talk about. In my mind I am already in Malta,
explaining to Tony Macelli that we do not need a press for this kind of
printmaking. I can buy any knife and a wooden spoon. Like Tony, I am
clever at using what is at hand. At the store I can get some paper,
watercolors and starch in Valletta and make prints.

So much to talk about! Give us time. Who wants to come to Malta? Who?

Game Inventor Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.


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