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Schmidt writes, "On the overall square of this print each of the four units used has its own corners. Each unit is most dense in its own corner and the probability of its appearance decreases with the distance from that corner...The print was realized in 1967 using an arithmetical programme which approximates to the idea and hand set in 10 pt letterpress border material. The shuffling of the units within the subsections used was done manually and is imperfect." The units consist of small rectangles which are solid black, have a heavy outline, have a light outline, and blank spaces. The only copies of this issue are in futura sammelband. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the first page Houedard wrote, "thank you for the invitation to your show - wish i cld have manged it all best sounds good" At the bottom of page three Houedard wrote, "typed in haste - unchecked - i fear with a slip or two - sent the with unslipt luvs" -s. Pages 2 & 3 of this letter are based upon an onomastikon that is a book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people. Wikipedia: Peter Schmidt (17 May 1931 "“ 22 January 1980) was a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in art and music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, Brian Eno, Mark Boyle, Dieter Roth and had associations with Russell Mills, David Toop and Tom Phillips. the Sackner Archive holds one work by Schmidt, The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts", an...