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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.

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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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 a New Year's greeting card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The article depicts a large photograph of Sloy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dave Nichols scored the verso of the cardboard frame with the title in large letters -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sloy did the drawings and Dave made the box which they gifted to the Sackners in memory of their visit to their studio home in 2009. During this first meeting, the Sackners mentioned one of their favorite, unusual words that almost eveyone does at sometime in their house. Scurryfunge is an archaic English word that means "a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door." Sloy liked it so much that she did these fantastic calligraphic drawings that featured this word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The small hand lettering on this collag reads 's i n g' from different angles. When held up to the light a second layer of writing can be seen. The top border is hand cut. The cancelled, red bordered stamps on the poem object commemorate the work of several product designers and are part of the conceptual work of sloy and nic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...

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This first edition book was written between October 1989 and April 1990. The layout and design were by sloy (aka Sandra Loy) and the cover and drawings were by nic (aka Nicholas). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.