From the Mailbag on the 4th of March

It might be a coincidence but it seems like I’m getting a lot more random emails these days that are absolutely ripe to be plucked from the mailbag. If only I could tell if they were cryptic artistic interventions or just spam….

Behold, the following e-mail, which simply read:

“it took ten days to transfer the lint in the soldier’s belly button to his right pants pocket.
he smokes camel lights.”

And was accompanied by this picture:

Next, does anyone out there read enough of …this language… to tell me whether this fax we received in our Berlin office (one of my all-time favorite faxes) is conveying any actual information, or whether it’s just fun to look at?

And finally, I don’t know many artists who use their ambidextrousness as a selling point, but there is this one, from a recent press release:

“An ambidextrous artist who paints the great Masters hanging in a gallery setting with his right hand, whilst painting with the 2D simplicity of a child with his left…”
It goes on, “The talented self-taught artist uses his right hand to paint intricate images in oils, and then adds his now trademark childlike ‘stickmen’ in crayon to his pictures with his left.”

My question: If you’re only painting childlike 2D stick figures with your left, can you really call yourself ‘ambidextrous’?