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This catalogue was designed by the first three authors and the exhibition was curated by the last two. Ron Glowin contributed an essay on the art of making art in boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each contributor has an inked his/her fingerprint that follows the engraving. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This a collection of watchwords inprinted on pencils to promote understanding and good will. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page consists of the candy object described by an ancient dictionary along with the candy itself. The presentation is reminiscent of early Joseph Kosuth works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The images on the clear acetate sheets are great sailing ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a commercial Swiss match box that advertises a night club, 'Hot Lemon.' Finlay has printed in the same typography on the opposite side, 'Blue Lemon.' The poem that substitutes for the address site of "Hot Lemon" reads, Moray Firth Seine Netter - Fruition - Port Letters / Fishing Nos. INS265. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The clock was commissioned by Groupe Clinivest for the year 2000. Albert Dupont designed the watch-face using the imprint of babies' feet for the numerals. Dupont wrote the label on the top of the metal container. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each of 10 cans contained a different color paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The inside of a Swan Vestas match box was modified to display an image of a sailboat on folded papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The keys presumably unlock the door of the museum. The colophon reads, ...is a box of mauricio nannuccci (1971) published by adlers editions in 30 copies signed and numbered in malmo sweden autumn 1983 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The writings on the dried onion leaves consist of brief phrases, such as 'magic cloth.' The broadside documents the correspondence between Ray Johnson and Coco Gordon on onion skins beginning in 1981. It appears that the handwriting on the onion skins was done by Ray Johnson.Internet: Coco Gordon, born in Genova, lives and works from her NYC loft and her home in the red rocks of Lyons, Colorado. She emigrated to the United States in 1939. An Intermedia artist/ poet/ performer/ papermaker/ publisher of W Space artist book editions, she is also known as SuperSkyWoman. For the 2001 Venice Biennale Coco contributed her Superskywoman dialog "Forget Coming' to the Markers Project on Via Garibaldi and contributed her performance poem "Homage to the butterfly' to the Bunker Poetry Project at the Artiglierie of the Arsenale.13 SuperSkyWoman dialog posters showed at De Garage, Belgium May3-June 23 2002, curated by Luc Fierens. She has participated in the London and the Istanbul Biennales....