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Tipping used the annoucement box from Ubu Gallery, New York [The Box: From Duchamp to Horn], to hold an enlarged replicate of an American penny. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gertrude Jekyll was a leading designer of gardens. The rose of Gertrude Stein's well known poem can also be identified as the tip of the old-fashioned garden watering can. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This reproduces a 'paper' delivered to the American Society of Cybernetics in 1987, produced as the response to a call for a more socially beneficial information processor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each poem object consists of a box handmade by Biro into which has been placed a circular mirror on a cushioned bed with the following lines: 1) We Get On Well, 2) I Don't Look Anyone In The Eye, 3) I'm Obsessed With The Future, 4) It's Hard Not To Hate In A Situation Like This, 5) Often Feel Like Don Quixote and 6) Life Here Is Just Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is depicted on page 23 of Ducorroy's catalogue raisonne, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The ping pong balls are arranged in a row and are printed with the words Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results, and Findings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The maple syrup was produced by Mike Czok in Braintree Vermont from the trees that grow around his home.The image on the poster is such a tree.The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each isssue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published on a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.