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Calligraphic text

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

[welcome to days to come], 1966

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-27839-28972
Scope and Contents

The text is written in red and black capital letters. The text reads both right to left (black) and right to left (red) if the paper is turned over and read on the reverse side. It states,"Welcome to days to come! Shall we forfeit much? Sight, hearing, speech perhaps and thought? In the end our loss is self, the glory our gain." The appropriate punctuation marks are written in red and black as are directional arrows. The letters are written written twice, text over text or mirror image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Working Day and Night, 1989

 Item — Box 107: [Barcode: 31858073143772]
Identifier: CC-09851-10045
Scope and Contents

This work shows a balcony with books, very much like the Sackner Archive. The artist confirmed that he had no idea of this when he did the work. In the bottom center, a child is seated at a round table. Through two large windows are a day time and a night time scene. The frame is covered with dense hand-lettered text on topology. The top and bottom edges are written backwards and can be read with a small mirror provided by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Zapp: Censored, 2011

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-52055-73157
Scope and Contents

The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Zen Concrete: Translations & a new interpretation of Buddhist Doctrines [with ephemera], 1967

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-48611-69643
Scope and Contents

This is the introductory piece of this 23 piece suite of altered mimeographed works. This is a letter to Bill Wyatt, a British poet, that states, "dear bill: i hope you can use this - i have no way to reproduce here - the fugs and allen ginsberg will be doing a benefit for me & jim lowell so we'll at least be able to pay our lawyers - its going to be difficult staying out of jail - establishment here is [swastika symbol] insane - i hope you can afford the return postage on this if you cant use it - if not let me know & ill try to get some return coupons & send them to you..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967