Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be glimpsed. The hollowed out words, with their small, frayed, oblong edges are soft to the touch. Rather than a linear read, a visual read is necessary to understand the meta-language created by the altered syntax of disparate letters and empty spaces.I chose this particular title, Segregation, originally written by Robert Penn Warren, for its content about racism in the United States. My idea was to take the author¹s premise to its extreme, and carry out, in a physical manner, the theories he puts forth, (with some poetic license).To create a parallel between separating the African American and white races in the United States, and the book, the black from the white, that is, by removing portions of the black ink making up the words from the white pages, creates a type of segregation. However, when this is accomplished the fragile material, the paper, is torn. Similarly in societies that condone ethnic cleansing, where minorities are either exterminated or oppressed, the fabric of that society is forever irreparably damaged. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.