Subtitled "Highlights of a Week," Smith tracks six areas that she may have neglected during a seven day period. The categories are her job, art, home, friends, husband and children. Each area is colored according to a legend varying from not neglected to completely neglected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phrases from the Biblical story of Ruth as well as the artist's own comments have been placed on wooden blocks within a metal case. The inside of the box has been painted in a green color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Phrases from the Biblical story of Ruth as well as the artist's own comments have been placed on wooden blocks within a metal case. The inside of the box has been painted in a green color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear and "star," words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear" and "star", words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Theme of book relates to the beauty of the Californian Coast. A double entendre appears in the poem since the "bear" and "star", words in the poem are in the cosmos as well as the Californian state flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bookbinding was created by Matthew Heckert. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The overall wall sculpture consists of cardboard, red painted, false bricks to form alters; this object has shelves to hold book objects. The center altar has a doll which appears to be an angel. The title of this work was taken from a trade edition book that constitutes an element of the sculpture. The pages of the latter are collaged with text that has been cut-up and rearranged, sometines upside down, so that it is reminiscent of a language that once might have been interpretable but can no longer now be deciphered. The book objects placed on the shelf reference this imagined civilization. One of the book objects depicts a colored collaged photographic print of the 1970's American television character, Molly Goldberg, with arms outstretched as if posing a question, enclosed within a frame dated in hand lettering as 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The book is a narrative story about a woman who has a break-up of a love affair. Each page has polaroid photographs depicting punctuated, typewritten text or images collaged over phrases accompl with automatic writing. The typed text of the photographs alludes to aspects of breathing, e.g. to escape she began to breathe deeply, with each measured breath, deliberately exhaled, the pace of her breathing, she sighed deeply loudly exhaled etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a put-together of the Gmicalzoma language of John Dee, magician and alchemist to Queen Elizabeth during Shakespeare's time with the typographical design of Iliazd. The title page contains ciphers from a book by Dee himself. The tiles consist of nine small tiles joined together by wooden dowels and Hirschman mentions that he was seeking a "geometric Zaum" by the the rota-tora-orat box simulation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Homage to the thirteenth century Spanish Kabbalist poet Abraham Abalafia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page of this book depicts a framed, surrealistic image of a person in profile that has been defaced by calligraphic and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of a dried rose flowers in a printed folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Burtner cut the page number and part of the text from page 13 of every book in her library and placed the small squares into randomly selected groupings, 48 to a page to form fortuitous poems and coincidences of meaning. The Sackner Archive also holds an original page from this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lorraine Bodger is a writer, illustrator and editor who has exhibited at The Center for the Book Arts in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.