This unusual exhibition catalog, which itself can be classified as an artist book, consists of booklets with reproductions from limited editioned artist and illustrated books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The booklet with the 26 treated pages has an abstract line drawing on its cover, the booklet with 69 treated pages has the roman numeral "II" on its cover with the title "Les Tres Riches Heures de Fleur." The first booklet describes and illustrates trips to Kenya, Verona, Dusseldorf with Phillips' assistant/bookbinder Pella Erskine Tulloch. He also describes and illustrates her musical tastes. The first sketch of her portrait appears on one of the pages; the Sackner Archive holds the completed painted portrait. In the booklet with 69 treated pages (concertina II), Phillips mentions drawing and painting Pella's portrait and comments on his own activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This stamp is appropriated from the Marcel Duchamp ready-made of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The black toothbrush is printed "Keep smiling (Ben)" in the artist's characteristic, white calligraphy. The box also adds "embrasse moi (Ben)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This small wooden box contains what appears to be a smaller, "black box." It has a sliding top inscribed with the handwritten name, Ben. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is set in short phrases on the vertical axis of tightly, rolled scroll with occasional diagonally printed phrases of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work deals with ship wrecks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text of the scroll reads, "A life in hate Haiti fear Rwanda death Bosnia anger America prejudice." The words are printed in varied size typefaces. The background images depict human figures walking within an African landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.