The Sackner Archive lent several pictures to the exhibition and participated in the seminar. Critical essays for the catalogue were written by Bill Gass and Johanna Drucker. In addition, the Sackners lent Tom Phillips' Dante Diary pages and manuscripts to the Olin Library for an exhibition in Special Collections curated by Kevin Ray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Martha B. Scott contributes an essay on the cultural aspects of the artists' collage works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The paper tape is hand-printed with the phrase "From Dust to Dust." A small paper with an inscription is tied to a human rib bone found by Barron in Turkey. The painted and folded pamphlet is collaged with the saying "The Truth is in the Details" and has the artist's name painted in Hebrew along with two skeletons. A torn "fragile" label is also included in the flip-top box.*Web 1998: [Email]dbarron501@aol.com The "bone" is a human rib-bone, oh pulmonary specialist--and one of adam's, most likely. "love, adarn" should be "love, adam". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this drawing, Barron emphasizes the importance of directing attention to observing the act of breathing in diagnostic medicine over the utilization of the invasive diagnostic tool, the Swan-Ganz catheter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Susan Barron is pictured showing pages ron "Labyrinth of Time." She spoke at the History of the Book Seminar in Special Collections aat the Van Pelt Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Consists of a drawing of an abstracted human figure with the caption, "Memory is mucous, blown into Kleenex and tossed away." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The loose sheets are reproductions of drawings that Susan Baron made for her exhibition in Chicago. On the envelope she has written the following message to the Sackners: "a few not great xeroxes of micrography from Chicago show coming up - charcoal & carbon pencil on paper mostly - lots of black birds = Kafka show = The Writing on the Wall. PLZ DO NOT BEND" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition, subtitled "Text and/as Image and/as Design and/as Meaning," was an interdisciplinary exhibition of visual art, artists' books, graphic design, and visual poetry by artists who were examining the ways that texts and images produced meaning in contemporary society, specifically in the United States in the 1990s. In a detailed essay, the curator, Johanna Drucker writes, "In the late 20th century artists in all areas work with an awareness of the legacy of conceptual art's attention to language and idea, with pop art and postmodernism's interest in appropriating language and image from the realm of popular and consumer culture, and with the ongoing engagement of artists with a commitment to the traditions of innovative expression." The Sackner Archive lent twenty five works to this exhibition and are acknowledged in the curator's note. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem was made by linking headlines from the New York Times which are pasted onto a white ribbon to form a scroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Suan Barron found this stone in the shape of a penis on Miami Beach while walking with Ruth Sackner. The loose sheet reads, " Megiddo: Upper Egypt 8th c. B.C.E. Antiquities Trust Verification." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Susan Barron collected rocks from the Sackners' garden, painted them to resemble potatos, and placed them in a paper bag used for potatos. The collaged texts read, "This hardy variety of SPUDS is grown in Miami Beach, Florida, under the strict supervision of Reb Marvin's & Dr. Ruth's Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems exclusively! Processed & packaged in Brooklyn under the evil eye of the Rebbitzin of Dubious Repute {a.k.a. Suzette de la Crepe} in the Borough of Brooklyn - Park Slope Branch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter sent to Marvin Sackner for his 66th birthday, Barrons describe an imagined background of his new invention of the motion platform. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Provides installation directions and comments about her unique book, Twisting Silence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.