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Mirror image

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Vergessen Versprechen / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-27455-28503
Scope and Contents

The two German words that mean in English 'forget & promises' are printed in right side up and in reverse right side down. Thus, the poem is read, 'forget promises - promises forget.' This typing is designated No.492 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Vous Souhaitent une Bonne Annee / Lecointre, Didier ; Drouet, Dominique., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38690-40600
Scope and Contents

Every other line in this new year greeting is printed on the verso, creating frontward and backward lines of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[welcome to days to come] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-27839-28972
Scope and Contents

The text is written in red and black capital letters. The text reads both right to left (black) and right to left (red) if the paper is turned over and read on the reverse side. It states,"Welcome to days to come! Shall we forfeit much? Sight, hearing, speech perhaps and thought? In the end our loss is self, the glory our gain." The appropriate punctuation marks are written in red and black as are directional arrows. The letters are written written twice, text over text or mirror image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966