A lot paper work to get Genpets off to Switzerland. The fact they’re electronic added extra paperwork and tricky wording for customs, but so far I managed.

First time I wrote up the commercial invoice I worded it a little rough:

Art sculpture. Foam latex rubber encased in plastic.
Rca type wires, tubing
200watt power supply.

Sounded like a bomb rather than art, but they give you so little space, but I managed to word it better in the end.

Airway bill, commercial invoices, transport order for Swiss customs, etc, now I know how, it wasn’t the volume or length or paperwork, it was the tricky wording they use. “unit of measure” had me on the phone to learn I had to write “each” versus pair…. I was thinking inches but then I was all logical, and we all know there’s no place for logic in the year 2006.

Point is though, now I know how to do it, and everything from this point on will be a lot easier. Though I can see why for many producing the artwork becomes a minor part of their career as an artist. Also did up a fancy little instruction manual for how to setup Genpets as I won’t be there to do it myself. If you wanna give it a gander go to Genpets.com and download the new catalogue.