Thanks for your letter and painting list. First of all, my full name is DANNY DEVOS, I don't see what difference what it makes in knowing people's names, anyway I prefer to write as DDV, I want to keep the first contact impersonal in a way to have some kind of an honest answer actually. I hate personification of 'heroes', I doubt that LUX INTERIOR uses his real name. I just think DDV stands more powerful than just a name, but I won't whine too much about that, you can write to me using whatever you prefer to use as a name, either Danny or DDV.

I include a report on a tour we made through Australia, this might give you an insight of what kind of art & music we make. I will also send you a copy of our magazine FORCE MENTAL, either with this letter or in a separate parcel. You'll find most texts in English. It's the latest issue we have done so far, and we are now working on a new one, if you like you can send a contribution, eventually under a different name if you frighten publicity. Anyway, let me know what you thought about it.

I did read this book about you called KILLER CLOWN, I most liked the part where they describe the tailing for a week or so, it even said you planned to escape to Belgium, is that fantasy too, if not why Belgium? I like Belgium in a way, but I also hate it, although I hate so much I don't know whether it's relevant. When we were in Australia though we felt a lot better, that really is a good place to live, so big. Here in Belgium you can not stand anywhere without seeing a house or a building, in Australia you can drive for hours and see nothing except dead cows next to the road and dingoes hiding and eating the cadavers. You can just drive out and take from the earth what you need, in Belgium it's illegal to cut a tree in your own garden.

I will probably order one of your paintings, but not right now as we're short of money, maybe soon I'll sell one of my sculptures and then I'll have some money. Being an artist hasn't brought in much money, you must be pretty rich though if you sold 500 paintings. I maybe sold 5 artworks at most, but of course I've been paid a lot for performances, and we get money when we do concerts, but still, we generally are short of money. Yes, media also make a fantasy about artists being extravagant and ripping people off asking tons of money for something most people think they could do themselves. We usually even have troubles with art-people themselves, we're regarded as some kind of guerilla or so, because we often organise events ourselves, or try to present our work in other forms too, that's one of the reasons I started doing music, I just do the same thing as in any other art-form, you only reach a lot more people through it than the 20 art-lovers in a gallery. But recently over 300 people came to see my ED GEIN exhibition, although most of them didn't like it too much or were offended by it. But before, like 5 or 6 years ago I used to do performances or 'body art' as some call it, my first action was to lay under a floor I built, people had to walk in over the floor to go to a party, when they entered the floor was kind of unsecure and when they continued, they could see a kind of window in the floor, and the glass pressing onto my chest and head, so most of them hurries off the floor. I wanted people to do things they'd never do, like standing on top of a person, but then they were faced with the fact that they actually WERE standing on top of someone. After a while though people were getting aggressive and I had to stop. Another time I was invited on this international performance-festival in France, I did something in a large old basement, everybody walked in and immediately walked around in all the rooms of the basement to find out where the place of the action was. By the time they all found out nothing happened I had closed