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This work depicts squiggley lines formed from the @ character. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two lines of 17 typed colons follow a crease in the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The angle of the typed colons follows a crease in the paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a small black typed cat sitting on a red brick wall - all typed in black and red ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The dedication, "for ew," probably refers to emmett williams. Houedard left the carbon copy intact on the folded page below the original typing such that when the work is unfolded, the carbon typed page presents a shadowy mirror image. The work is composed of parentheses marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem is laid out in the style of ee cummings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Columns of parentheses are typed from top right to a sqare form on the bottom left over many lines of diagonal slash marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image consists of rows of wavy parenthesis pouring from a box composed of slashes and dashes into a containerat the bottom of the page composed of dashes . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two red square and the two blue squares are made with@ symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work, typed in red and black inks, consists of six black squares laid out as an off-center diagonal grid 2 x 3. In each square, there are numbers, letters or @ characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This typing depicts three rectangles formed with red, joined underline marks. The inner portions of the rectangles contain scattered period marks. The image is framed with joined 'at' (@) marks. This work was exhibited in Force Fields: phrases of the kinetic held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona in 1999 and the Hayward Gallery London in 2000. The work was selected by the Curator, Guy Brett. Internet: The Svayambhu Linga (typed in lower right corner) are temples that contain representations of Shiva that are believed to have risen up by themselves in the primordial past. In the commentary by Nigamajnanadeva on his Jirnoddharadasakam, sixty-eight Svayambhu Lingas are listed Natural (Kailash, Amarnath, Mt. Shivling) Swayambhu Linga. The history of the Valley, according to the legends, begins with Swayambhu, or the "the self-existent". In times uncharted by history, Bodhisattva Manjusri came across a beautiful lake during his travel. He saw a lotus that emitted brilliant...

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The image consists of three increasingly larger spirals laid out as a diagonal pattern and formed from @ characters. The Sackner Archive holds another copy done on the same day with minor differences in the typewriting; dsh's signiture is located at u.r. rather then u.l, as in this version. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.