The text is taken from The Song of Songs 4:6. The perforations on three of the pages are pairs of Hebrew 'yod's' in a large typeface.' The text is based upon the phrase, "In the heat of the day {life}, God is a protective shadow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gertrude Jekyll was a leading designer of gardens. The rose of Gertrude Stein's well known poem can also be identified as the tip of the old-fashioned garden watering can. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

For this piece that is based on a die, Tom Phillips lettered the text in varying numbered circles. the lettering is in the style of his text based wall sculptures where each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The text is the title of the poem "Un Coup de Des Jamais Abolira le Hazard" by Stephane Mallarme. Phillips writes that, " the first line of the foundation poem of chance procedures (and concrete poetry in general), outlines another dilemma which I translate as 'A throw of dice will never do away with chance'. Each dot on these giant dice incorporates the line and through the mysteries arising from the solid geometry of a transparent cube each "throw" gives rise to new configurations as chance plays its second role. Looked at from the sides, from the corners and from above, the cube's symmetry produces illusions and paradoxes of perception, hints of mirrors and fractures appropriate to each of these statements." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "bladerunner" is handwritten repeatedly on each page. The arrangement of this word from page to page differs slightly or greatly. The loose sheet provides instructions for opening the box by sliding the front protruding piece to the left. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem deals with the theme of a dark blue sky. This work is also designated situazioni plasticoverbali No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The expression "butt wipe" is written as a grid obsessively on the entire roll of toilet paper. The box was made by Sloy's husband, Nic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Warck-Meister handwrites the phrase of the title using a glue gun in a continuous path of attached letters. The translation of the title is "I construct my desire." The phrase adjacent to it and upside down reads, "I destroy your desire." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Pages consist of thin copper sheets. Artist has punched out small holes to form words or markings and passes black thread through the holes to form the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print of this original is reproduced in Ilse and Pierre Garnier's folder, "Prototypes: Textes Pour Un Architecture" (1965) that is also held by the Sackner Archive. It is also reproduced in GArnier's book "Oevres poetiques ! 1950-1968 page 219. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This the cover design for the book of the same title which was published by Vertigo Productions, London in 1970; the book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.