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The Sackner's lent their Welty collage piece to the exhibition that will travel to the Zimmerli Art Mueum at Rutgers University. The work is titled "Soundtrack to My Life: Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads (Grocery Store)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Welty has transformed the Sackner Archive card by drawing over and changing each letter to create a new alphabet. The card was originally designed by Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This collage was exhibited at the deCordova Museum (2011) and the Zimmerli Museum (2011) at her single artist show entitled 24/7. Its text reads: And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here? Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down Letting the days go by/water flowing underground Into the blue again/after the money's gone Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground. And you may ask yourself How do I work this? And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife! Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down Letting the days go by/water flowing underground Into the blue again/after the money's gone Once in a...