Ascension of Female and Mail

In the comments on my first balloon entry ptomaine asks how i arrived at making them--here a commentary with some new ones-- . . .





















I found this Spanish celebrity-and-royalty magazine called <> in a dumpster . . . across an open alleyway from a construction site i work at a lot on my rubBEings and paintings--
i saw the fotos of the bride in the balloon and set them aside--thinking of a word in one of my all time favorite essays, "The Lives They Wish" by Petra Backonja--in it Petra uses the word "ballonery"--
so i made my first balloon using some things found on street--and sent it to her with the fotos--
i sent some more and included this stamp i found in a book also from a dumpster on American postage stamps of the last over a hundred years--
Lafayette, Indiana is the place where i was born--but i did not know until Petra told me that it was the site of the first Air Mail launch in the usa--commemorated by this stamp--
except for the terrible drawings the non-bridal balloons are made using things found in the street--including a half burnt piece of wood's arcing grains--
The bride is a leading ballerina of the Bolshoi who married a Russian zillionaire--
at a palace built by Catherine the Great--