This collage follows Phillips from London to Jamaica to Miami Beach. A hand addressed label in the upper right corner from Ruth and Marvin Sackner to Tom Phillips has the following written message: "25th Nov 1986 arrives the Sackner catalogue herein after known as the whopper with a list of their holdings & nominally all the important Dante material." A record of Phillips' diary entries are written on the left side of the collage dating from November,1986 to March 1987. An invitation to an exhibition of Phillips' graphic works at the National Gallery of Jamaica is collaged at the top center. Phillips includes a portion from the Dante piece by Paul Laffoley hanging in the Sackner Archive. l -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive lent the painted triptych, "The Divine Comedy" to the first retrospective exhibition of Laffoley's paintings. This work is illustrated in the fold out pages and mentioned in the essay of Jeanne Marie Wasilik. J.W. Mahoney discussed the photographically reproduced serigraph, "The Alchemy of Breathing." The original drawing of this work was commissioned for the '"Beauty of Breathing" exhibition and is held by the Sackner Archive. Paul Laffoley contributed an insightful autobiographical essay in which he writes about his current project on the Pantheon. He also made collages expressly for illustrating this catalogue. Each of the paintings reproduced in the catalogue has an in depth comment by the Loffoley. The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of the Austin Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners lent Laffoley's "Dante's Divine Comedy" to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This illustrated blog by Geof Huth records the tour of the Sackner Archive with his family. and continues with their trip through Florida and the Florida Keys and a visit with Bob Grumman. The report continues with visits to and communication with Spencer Selby, Andrew Topel, and, performances with Nico Vassilakis, Crag Hill, Jim Anderson titled "An Evening of Sound/Visual/Digital/Poetics.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a review of Laffoley's exhibition at Kent Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue included reproductions of journals from 1972--2001, some of which have been held by the Sackner in a photocopied form -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This essay describes how Paul Laffoley plans to submit a proposal for a building adapted from a design by Antoni Gaudi for ground zero at the New World Trade Center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Alchemy is invoked to emphasize transformation, the breathing act, and labyrinths as a means of symbolizing their physical properties. Alchemy has three modes of content, viz. 1) physical: to be in rhythmic motion, e.g. either breathe or die, 2) volitional: oscillation between desire to create (expiration) or to be immortal (inspiration), 3) spiritual: derives from breathing (latin = spiritus) and no religion, philosophy or ideology can exist devoid of the notion of spirit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This text provides an interpretation of the drawing Laffoley made for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Laffoley links breathing with spirit, the soul and yoga. The lungs function as alchemy insofar as breathing transforms substance. He relates the first breath and each subsequent breath to a rhythmic interplay of life and death. The lungs as a physical entity are depicted as a labyrinth and their folds are numbered as two Fibonacci series, to emphasize breathing in & out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

2700 copies were bound in soft covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This a photocopied facsimile of a sketchbook. The original was in black and white rendered with ink. Laffoley notes that this facsimile is complete. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

One of 11 drawings in the series is illustrated. The subject is "the ten globes of absolute light of the tree of the Sephiroth and the false eleventh Sephirah named Daath (or knowledge) which spans the Abyss of Transition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This a photocopied facsimile of a sketchbook. The original was in ink and color with a single collage. Laffoley notes that this facsimile is incomplete. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Laffoley contributes an essay about the meaning of his new work. "The Alchemy of Breathing," a print commissioned by Marvin Sackner for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition (American Lung Association in 1992 in Miami Beach) is depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This a photocopied facsimile of a sketchbook. The original was in ink and color with a extensive collaging. Laffoley notes that this facsimile is incomplete. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts the painting with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.