The opened jars appear to have a fragrance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings are sketches of the locations of items within Collins' archive. The photographs document various Collins inspired projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The rolled paper in the jars provides an appearance of pharmaceutical content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The work deals with ship wrecks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The quotation from "A History of Writing" refers to the sacred footsteps of birds. The knots resemble those footsteps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This edition of artist trading cards was coordinated through an education program for young adults in Geelong. It offered them the opportunity to contribute to an international project sending their tokens into the mailart network. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The plastic colored key chain shaped like a lower case 'm' reads, "my keys." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The plastic colored key chain shaped like a lower case 'm' reads, "my keys." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Contributions mainly from British art students or recent graduates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The preface was written by Billy Chidish. David Breckon contributed a book entitled, "Transients" in which he provided photographs and captions for occupants of different rooms in a hotel at the same point in time. In this respect, he has utilized (knowingly or unknowingly) the format of George Perec's book, Life, A User's Manual. However, Perec employed solely verbal descriptions of the occupants and their dwelling spaces of a Parisian apartment house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.