The largest book consists of dictionary pages over which is printed, "Anatole France suggested that the dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. But life does not come in alphabetical order." The smaller three books consist of photocopied colored prints made from found printed text and images collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poems are brief phrases, e.g., "A Volley of Words, Not Missiles; The Poet's Touch; Mum's the Word," etc. placed on other indistinct or fragment texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In her essay "Cosmographicae Meditationes" Stetser considers maps as revealing the culture, politics, and values of those who make and use them." The visual renditions of various maps are tied in with the language and symbols of the text on each sheet, recognizing that "language holds a nation together but it also enables us to learn about other people and countries." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page consists of three horizontally cut pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card is a personal note to Pat Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stetser wrote numbers in different colored inks on the plastic envelope. The books have geometrical shapes, e.g., circle, triangle, square, and rectangle. The latter is an accordion folded book that is printed to resemble a tape measure. The theme of this work is mathematics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The artist copied perspective drawings from a Dover (press) publication and added language texts, letters and images to the reprinted pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages are cut in the shape of the letter 'E.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book reveals "traces of man" through history from reproductions of cave pictures, languages, mathematics, computer texts and buildings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this work, Stetser interweaves letters with images of electric circuit boards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.