The cover of this catalogue and two of the pages depict photographic reproductions of crumpled pages of telephone books; the Sackner Archive holds a unique artist book by Sit of torn telephone pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a fragment of a telephone book that Sit (1917-1987) has torn in a progression such that the narrowest page occurs at the beginning, the widest pages toward the middle, and the torn pages narrow at the end. It is reminiscent of the torn pages, artist books by Buzz Spector and Scott McCarney but Sit tears the pages more crudely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.