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The two prints by Carlfriedrich Claus included in this portfolio are depicted and described on page 60 of Claus' "Das druckgraphische Werk." Claus also provided an introductory essay. The Werkman piece is a reproduction from an Issue of "Next Call" and the folded print reproduces the text and illustrations for "Explodity." The original of the latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The plexiglas sculpture is from the Pyramidal Ecstasy Exerzises (sic) of Arias-Misson. In a letter to the Sackners, he stated that "they are without doubt the most concentrated and beautiful work I have done... a joyous affair built on the proportions of the Cheops; first I became fascinated by the compelling geometrical forces of the Pyramid, as angles and slopes and proportions created a grammar of relations between the figures I was working with.The theory of numbers, the enormous equation at the heart of the Pyramid, is not irrelevant to this mental energy. The Pyramid, unlike the Western spiritual structures, which soar upward from the ground, appears to have crashed from a void at its summit (the uncompleted golden pyramidal point) to the ground with a geomagnetic intensity. The figures on the walls and inside the pyramids come from the various shamanistic cultures of the world (Polynesian, African, Mayan, Vaudou etc.) which I feel can cluster in this all-encompassing...

Scope and Contents The plexiglas sculpture is from the Pyramidal Ecstasy Exerzises (sic) of Arias-Misson. In a letter to the Sackners, he stated that "they are without doubt the most concentrated and beautiful work I have done... a joyous affair built on the proportions of the Cheops; first I became fascinated by the compelling geometrical forces of the Pyramid, as angles and slopes and proportions created a grammar of relations between the figures I was working with.The theory of numbers, the enormous equation at the heart of the Pyramid, is not irrelevant to this mental energy. The Pyramid, unlike the Western spiritual structures, which soar upward from the ground, appears to have crashed from a void at its summit (the uncompleted golden pyramidal point) to the ground with a geomagnetic intensity. The figures on the walls and inside the pyramids come from the various shamanistic cultures of the world (Polynesian, African, Mayan, Vaudou etc.) which I feel can cluster in this all-encompassing...