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Guido Vermeulen's mail art envelopes are like worlds into themselves and at the same time they are part of the much larger whole.

(a comment by NANCY BELL SCOTT, USA, on the IUOMA network)

Guido's paintings are like finding images in the clouds
(a comment by Kathleen D. Johnson, USA, on IUOMA)

Guido does not paint monsters but spirits and ghosts, full of love, tenderness and compassion
(LIZA LEYLA during a conversation, Belgium)

His ability to express emotions through painting is a beautiful gift. Allowing oneself to feel sadness is the most direct route through grief. His paintings feel peaceful and kind.

(STEPHEN WALKER, USA)


My life is shifting... Your work is intangible, ethereal, cosmically rewarding. i eat it up & savor it like a great sandwich! It made my day!
(Lisa PEREZ, USA, on IUOMA)

Thank you for the TALISMAN painting on the envelope. It is real cool and creepy at the same time. I haven’t seen a piece of abstract capture such as pain and emotion so well since I visited the museum of art in Toledo. Bravo!
(Sarah Jo Pender, USA, from the Indiana Women’s Prison)

I suppose you could characterize Guido's painting style as expressionist. I know he is very interested in dreams as a source for art and poetry, and these particular chapter pages seem like shadowy dream corridors filled with shifting images and scenes. The Michaux quotes work as a counterpoint, Guido's art is taking over when the limits of language have been reached.
(De Villo Sloan, USA, on my tribute pages to Henri Michaux, see LAMUSAR blog)

Guido’s art expressions are always poems and they show us the reality of our real faces and souls (Mariana Serban, Romania)

His titles have both inspired and educated me (Alicia Starr, USA)

donderdag 30 juni 2011

DON'T BE A BIRD IN AN QUARIUM



A small painted envelope standard landscape size I mailed to Karin Greenwood in South Africa.
Title refers to a great book of poetry by one of my buddies: Jan Perquy. His second poetry book was called "A bird in an aquarium". It was a metaphor for his condition: being gay and living in a psychiatric asylum. Jan wanted to fit in and be part of the normal aquarium and of course he was not and never will be. Made me reflect on the difference of perceptions. In general artists like to be "birds in the aquarium" unless you have a serious problem and are forced to live a life in the marge of society, that changes everything... It's not a question of adaptation, Jan will never adapt, it's a longing of being part of a world that puts him in the nuthouse for reasons I don't have to explain here and I can assure you Jan writes the most incredible poems in Belgium I've ever had the opportunity to read. My conclusion: society sucks, the world sucks, what's new(s) under the sun ???
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