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Letters from Dennis #4

Item date(s): 1979

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (letters to)
Dennis (FOOK: GOOB OOB)  - (letter from)


Pages: See notes
Size: See notes
Language: English; Fook
Inscription: Signed by the author
Edition: Unique


Place publication: Ozark region. [Arkansas, ‎Kansas‎, ‎Missouri‎ and ‎Oklahahoma]
Publisher: The author

Additional notes:
Single folded sheet (which formed envelope) showing Menlo Park address and FOOK ISLAND ghost stamp and text: X-ibit Gallery 155. 155 Park Central. April 13-27 1979. 7-10pm and SAT 1-10 + SUN 1-5. Collaged black covers. Back of envelope: Works & Life X-ibit. Text within with purple and green ink. Loose original US postage stamps included.

DEAR FOOK [in FOOK script] & beloved ones close to Bat. . . . Namaste love. . . How go the days? Creating art here . . . is not often easy in this kingdom of cruelty. . . requires much persistence and determination. so much you know already living in South Africa. . . . . . . . yet much Bat art is done in remote Tahitian atmospheres. contrasts important. The art of fook raches me here. . . very beautiful munificent card and the only real message, "much cosmic love". white bird flying in fields of blue, gently bather in the sky of children flowers. I'm interested in faeries myself. . . could you strengthen my knowledge of such and send further work about elemental spirits. I see many faeries exiled on the main streets. . . yet it's sad. . . and something to work on. Plans for a Missouri "NO Mo SKOOL continue. . . you have ideas???

as I say, making art is not often easy. . . tornados of wind blew across this Ozark region this week and shattered the windows of Gallery 155!!!! [drawing of tornados interspersed in text] Vanishing as quickly as the appeared going back into the great sky; perhaps they inrinsically felt the value of "Fookian art" and only . . . wished to take some back to the wind king "up there" SHANT [in FOOK script with the "S" upside down]. A children's story for "grown ups" continues spontaneously "EATING LIGHT" & "TALKING TO FLOWERS" IN PREPARATION FOR MY [Some water damage obliterating the script] hope you can make it Walter. No exact time (middle May to early June??) [damage] tuning out the news. . . carefully step by step [damage] like saving the earth keeps you busy. . . . ?????.

Ref: GB/31505







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