ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

The drawing depicts aspects of automobile accident in REgime Dell'Umbria, Provincia di Perugia, Italy in July, 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Poem object has the shape of an alligator; across the body is written the Russian word "oobopshbambo" which means "just a little jazz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing is a combination of a preparatory drawing for a constructivist sculpture rendered in graphite and colored pencil framed by a dense calligraphic script that was done by automatic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The artist created this tropical landscape drawing as a thank you message after visiting the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The images read from bottom to top, move from earth to air, and then back again as a metaphor for breathing. A landscape signifies breathing of earth and a mandrake root "screams" when pulled fro the earth. A balloon man adapted from a Chinese Taoist illiustration of psychic breathing, hovers over the sea in a place where air is "worth breathing." The scroll contains automatic writing done as Lewty focused on the rhythm of his own breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet is an advertising vehicle for quack remedies which attribute their virtues to Sarsaparilla root. The latter, according to the text, gave Rameses, a Pharaoh of Egypt, his great strength. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Each sculptural element consists of a single letter of the word "BREATH." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collaborating artists poetically describe their work as follows: "Earth lungs, collapsing from excess, coughing clouds of acid rain, weeping sterile lakes." The background text on breathing exercises is taken from "The Complete System of Self-Healing" by Dr.S.T.Chang. Tao Te Ching writings on the outer rim of the support read "Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collaborating artists poetically describe their work as follows: "Earth lungs, collapsing from excess, coughing clouds of acid rain, weeping sterile lakes." The background text on breathing exercises is taken from "The Complete System of Self-Healing" by Dr.S.T.Chang. Tao Te Ching writings on the outer rim of the support read "Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The background for this assemblage are collaged fragments of dictionary pages beginning with the word, "agni" and ending with "aponeurosis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.