This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece was made specifically for the Sackners and was a gift from the artist and is one half of a companion work made for Norma and Allan Wilson who introduced us to Lina Weiss. Both works were exhibited in the Art Center Gallery on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach along with the performance of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is also designated No.3 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.