This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bag that is printed "black dirt" contains contains the same. The bag that is printed "gold seed" contains yellow corn kernels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The round images on the four pages are a backward clock face, Stonehenge, a labyrinth and the earth as seen from space. The pages are attached to the lock handle and the key is in the lock. This is Bart's greeting for the new millenium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The words printed on the card correspond to the actual objects in the case. They are as follows: flash (light bulb); seer (figure in yoga position); AHA (blank booklet); seek (key); sigh (beads spelling sigh); find (compass). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The tube is collaged with paper that contains old German text. It is burnt at the edges. Two corks seal the ends. The rod is collaged with letraset letters and is wrapped in tissue paper that is printed with wishes for a Happy New Year in an unidentifiable language. It is tied at both ends with string. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The paper tape contains the poem "little snail / inch by inch / climb Mount Fuji!" this object was a holiday gift to the Sackners -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The transparent disc placed in the mirror reads REFLECT backwards and forward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This Christmas gift from Bart consists of instructions on how to mount the given objects that are stored in a red silk bag onto a printed paper base creating a constructivistic minataure landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was conceived and directed by Harriet Bart and printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo. Bart writes that she searches "for ancient, small quotidian objects and early signs of writing. Countless treasures of the daily capture my imagination...Objects and inscriptions, beautiful and mysterious, carry forth their secret stories and the everyday poetry of praise." Each page of found poetry is recreated by Barth and contains a unique gilded geometric form. the binding is by Jill Jevne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The accompanying sheet retells a story from Doris George regarding her grandfather.