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The drawing forms one surface of a postcard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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Sloy sent Sackner a card with the repetitive admonition, "breathe" and Sackner returned a computer printed page with stylized lungs formed by the repetitive phrase, "I Am Breathing" in various typefaces and dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This drawing consists of the handwritten word, breath and its mirror image repeated in three columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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The theme of the text is dark and depressing phrases relating to death and the macabre. Examples read "We all gotta go," "Deaths Head," Skeleton Socks," "Midnight." The box was made by Dave Nichols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The repetition of the title serves as a New Year's greeting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word "emigre" is written repetitively in a grid with varied sizes and spaces to the lines of writing. This is a unfolded mailing poster to announce Emigre 32. The single fold in the center was made for convenience of storage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The handwriting on the card repeats happy valentine's day. The collaged translucent paper is an ink drawing of an outline of a large heart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem depicted on the cover of this card is an embroidered poem of Sloy's Shroud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The objects are calligraphically styled painted letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...

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This is a shipping tube that Sloy collaged with her drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image on the card front is from a painting by Nic in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The collaged elements on the hat are taken for covers of old paperback novels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an example of one of the seven rhyming families of letters discovered by Sloy. The card was sent through the mail by Sloy back to Sloy and then sent in an envelope to the Sackners. The postage stamp is a picture of an Ornate Chorus Frog. On the verso, Sloy has written the following, "bee see d/c ee gee pee zee tv." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.