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[2 interlocking circles] (100267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08734-8908
Scope and Contents

The typed image is formed with "6's" and "9's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[3-D opened box] (060367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56184-9999626
Scope and Contents

An open space is contianed within a 3 D parallelogram of shlashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[3D dot planes] (200469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-08680-8853
Scope and Contents

The outline of the planes are periods and the vertical plane is formed from slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

9 Optical Poems / Valoch, Jiri; Houedard DS., 1967

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Identifier: CC-57232-63393
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum Folders #3. Includes nine prints on papercard and one print on paper collaged to envelope. Fiver of the nine loose prints are stored in a binder; the others in the original envlope in the Valoch box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Aerial View Building] (260569), 1969

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-08875-9050
Scope and Contents

This complex, dense, aerial view of buildings was achieved by typing only slashes and minus signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

autonomic relative (710803) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55100-59010
Scope and Contents

Houedard's caption for this work reads, 2 sheet moire poem: intention iks that both shld (sic) be mounted in a single frame so lkight shines thru from behnind & with device so rear sheet can be manipulated by hand (or slowly moved mechanically. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

bien au contraire (020271) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-08687-8860
Scope and Contents

This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[black sphere] (070569) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-08662-8835
Scope and Contents

This is an image of a three dimensional spherel formed from strips of slashes and dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

blue chakra in redwhite nonchakra (020567) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08741-8915
Scope and Contents

The title divides the page with a center image of a narrow box standing on its side filled with quotation makes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[blue V tower][CR][v-shaped tower] / Houedard Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-56447-59736
Scope and Contents

A blue V shaped tower stands on a red base with a red square top. The image could be seen top to bottom reversed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

celtic wheel of taranis (150469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-56278-9999716
Scope and Contents

Typed black slashes delineate the image of a sphere with a tail-like appendage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

chakravartin / wordwomb (080367 & 090367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08651-8824
Scope and Contents

This work consists of two poem dated a month apart.' Wordwomb' is composed using all five vowels. 'Chakravartin' is composed using apostrophes and parehtheses. Wikipedia: Chakravartin is a term used in Indian religions for an ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world. Such a ruler's reign is called sarvabhauma. It is a bahuvrīhi, literally meaning "whose wheels are moving", in the sense of "whose chariot is rolling everywhere without obstruction". It can also be analyzed as an 'instrumental bahuvrīhi: "through whom the wheel is moving" in the meaning of "through whom the Dharmacakra ("Wheel of the Dharma) is turning" (most commonly used in Buddhism and Hinduism). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[cube & propeller] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-09453-9640
Scope and Contents

The image of this work was formed with typed periods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[cubes and 8's] (312166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-08682-8855
Scope and Contents

Five cubes formed by apostrophes are divided by a vertical row of 8's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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