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Topel has printed images on a toilet paper roll and placed it into an antique paper tube from the Edison Laboratory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dyar writes on the label, "On Palm Sunday 1996 I picked up this palm branch at Saint Dominic's Church. It hung for one year on the wall in my studio & on Palm Sunday 1997 it was burned down to these ashes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Each sign is accompanied by a sheet listing the date of printing, dimensions, material, producer, edition, date of original artwork and notes by the artist. The catalogues contain essays by Alex Selenitsch, Sing Song, and George Alexander, Richard Tipping's Cure for the Common Code. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding Tipping's works. Other, more recent acquisitions have also been placed in this box. This box also has been acquired by MOMA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Included Contents Catalogues: Hear the Art. The Eagle Gallery, London, Great Britain, 1997. (3-fold A4 catalogue essay, 21 x 29.5 cm) Multiple Pleasures. Thorny Devil Press, Wonji Wonji, Australia. / The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996. (5-fold A6 catalogue essay, 10 x 15 cm) ...

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The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each "page" of this book is a round rubber gasket upon which the artist has printed statements beginning with O, e.g. O MY, OOO LA LA, OH WELL. The book is "bound" with a macrame strip. The title also refers to the well-known, erotic French novel with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.