The imagery in this knitted sweater relates to fruit, including the one arm bandit, gambling or fruit machines, a big apple, and a "Be Fruitful..." text. The colors have their basis in the brightness of Southwestern United States where Furnival knitted this piece at Roswell Institute, New Mexico, during an artistic sabbatical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page has one or two phrases of a poem along with handrawn lines on the words of the poem that deals with variations of a feminine body. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this collage was inspired by the thwarting of a gerrymandering attempt by the Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives by the Republicans by reading a 401 page bill, consisting for the most part, of innumerating the voting blocks in the state. The latter would take 8-10 hours to accomplish. Appended to the verso is a fragment of a photocopied article from the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, April 1992 explaining this action. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A worn binding of Plato's book, "Republic The Statesman" was remade as a container for an assemblage of booklets, scrolls, wooden rods, gauze and ancient printed texts. The lid of the box contains an inset, ornate magnifying glass through which a portion of the interior box can be viewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work consists of single words pinned to a masonite surface. The words are in the German language that when translated to English consist of autumn, to feel, today, to see, children, to live, a little, and quicker, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem object consists of six cloth breathing masks onto which is painted "HELP!" in individual letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title page reads - Gnostic: the nome of she are words of power, unspeakable and dwelling in forrest shadow in the midst of insect song. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated Wallet Number Three. Includes the following pamphlets: 11) Bettina Adler: eIghT FIGURES, 12) Allen Fisher: SSSSPEECH, 13) Allen Fisher: Atherapy studies group docket Q, 14) Jennifer Pike: Water Works, 15) Betty Radin: Masks, 16) Bill Griffiths, Bob Cobbing & Paula Claire: Gin Chap, 17) Paula Claire: Circuits, 18) Lawrence Upton: Loops, 19) Keith Musgrove: Tests and 20) Alison Bielski: Mobiles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bill Griffiths' introductory essay explains how Cobbing has used the duplicator, ink, stencils and over-printing to create texts of shapes and textures. They "move away from word and letter as conventional symbols...into a new semantics of shape. The works in this book date from 1970 to 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem object and envelope are heart shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.