In an essay in the catalogue, Nancy Spector mentions the Sackner piece "Pulmonary Consumption" but the work is not depicted in this book. Drozdik's work deals mainly with physical, life and medical sciences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work glass box that includes on its back surface the text of a sandblasted reproduced letter from Frederic Chopin to a friend regarding his landlord's negative reaction to the learning of Chopin's having contracted tuberculosis, a metaphor for the often negative contemporaneous reaction to AIDS. The red colored salt crystals & the vellum along the bottom & the diagonally upright plexiglas rod placed in the box symbolize splitting (spiting) of blood from the tuberculous lungs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.