Kocman requested the Sackners to send him five paperback copies of Kafka's novel "The Metamorphosis" and that he would return a surprise to them. The novel describes the tribulations of Gregor Samsa who as he "awoke one morning from uneasy dreams found himself transformed into a gigantic insect..." Kocman took the books that the Sackners had sent him, pulped the pages and formed handmade paper pages bound them into a book literally metamorphosizing "The Metamorphosis." This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of torn pieces of paper from a paperback novel packed within a transparent box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Marcus greatly enlarged the letters of the words in this book to bleed across the pages to make the text illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cory is a pseudonym of Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an advertisement from Hewitt Management. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Advertisement from Hewitt Management. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This collage-paper weaving, presented as a grid, was made from a PTL brochure, ultra fundamentalist religious material, Pluto & Goofy comics, color copy illustration from Andersen's fairy tales, anti-milking brochure, Florida Governor Chiles' campaign brochure, Senator (North Carolina) Jesse Helmes' campaign brochure, and religious-political material from a comic strip. This is detailed in a photocopied print, affixed to the verso, to which ink, handwritten comments have been added. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photograph depicts the scuptural work in three views. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover and book were designed by T. Mercer. This is the second printing of the book that corrected the misspelling of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover and book were designed by T. Mercer. This first printing has an incorrect title, 'Perisyle' rather than 'Peristyle.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.