The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." the Sackner Archive also holds another copy of slightly larger dimensions that has photocopied pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." The Sackner Archive also holds two smaller printed versions in offset with color reproductions of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The original photograph of the image on the first page is held by the Sackner Archive. The photographs on each page are printed with a grainy techique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The original photograph of the image on the first page is held by the Sackner Archive. The photographs on each page are printed with a grainy techique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts six panels of images and texts that deal with city life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work of Jody Zellen is featured as a C.O.L.A. Fellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These colored photographs were shown at a group exhibition entitled "Other Places" held at the Laguna Beach Art Museum in November 2004. The Sackner Archive holds one of the pieces, "Flee." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This was one of a series of pieces with like dimensions featuring a single word exhibited at the Laguna Art Museum, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photograph continues Zellen's preoccupations with city life. This piece suggests the situation of immigration to an American city at the turn of the century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In an enclosed letter with this book, a gift to the Sackners, Jody writes the following: "I wanted to share my latest book with you. I have been making drawings for the last few years and this practice has become something of a daily ritual. Each day I make a blind drawing (closing my eyes and marking marks on the paper) to a song on my ipod in addition to making a trace drawing from the daily newspaper (which I hold up to the window). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work is a radical change in visual imagery for Zellen, i.e., drawings rather than photographs but she still retains lettering in the work albeit now hand drawn in contrast to formal computer type lettering. The works that comprise Jody Zellen's works on paper from "Of a Lost Utopia," a gallery show at paul kopeikin gallery los angeles, are poetic meditations on the fragmented way she reads, retains and responds to the daily newspaper, using both old and new technologies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Words depicted in black text of different size typefaces representing visual sounds including vibration, jangle, crashing, explode, clank, jabber, and crash appear on an abstract background with a silhouette of a solitary figure. The image is part of Zellen's preoccupation with the violence present in large cities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive holds the original photograph, entitled "Flee," that is reproduced in this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The outstretched hand placed into an opened picture frame is the main focal point in this work. It overlays fragmented words with a charged political content, e.g., nudity, oppression, art, suspect, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.