This annual gift to the Sackner Archive shaped like a tea cup, is filled with two tea bags with labels that read sinceri TEA and integri TEA. The third object is a red stuffed heart with a Jan Baker Text Tiles label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.

The images are reproductions of ink stampings from medicine bottle tops. The text appears in reverse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a fragment of a telephone book that Sit (1917-1987) has torn in a progression such that the narrowest page occurs at the beginning, the widest pages toward the middle, and the torn pages narrow at the end. It is reminiscent of the torn pages, artist books by Buzz Spector and Scott McCarney but Sit tears the pages more crudely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition. In an author's afterward, Foer writes that he used the text of Bruno Schultz''s book "The Street of Crocodiles" to create this "imagined larger book, this ultimate book, that every word ever written, spoken or thought is exhumed." Bruno Schultz was killed by the Nazis and only two volumns of his writing survive. The artist Olafur Eliason writes that Tree of Codes is "an extraordinary journey that activates the layers of time and space involved in the handling of a book and its heap of words." Foer creates a new poetic text mined from the original novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second edition. In an author's afterward, Foer writes that he used the text of Bruno Schultz's book "The Street of Crocodiles" to create this "imagined larger book, this ultimate book, that every word ever written, spoken or thought is exhumed." Bruno Schultz was killed by the Nazis and only two volumns of his writing survive. The artist Olafur Eliason writes that Tree of Codes is "an extraordinary journey that activates the layers of time and space involved in the handling of a book and its heap of words." Foer creates a new poetic text mined from the original novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts the same seven vertically arranged labels of measurements that was adapted from Ben Nicholson's "Letters and Numbers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ockerse documents television programs by tracing lines directly from the TV screen. Words were selected from the programs by listening. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The spools of thread in a box were mailed to the Sackners as a Christmas gift from Finlay. One spool has blue, the other black thread, serving as a metaphor for clear and stormy weather, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This annual gift to the Sackner Archive is shaped like an actual wrist watch. The card reads," 2010 Take time 2 do what you want. Love, Jan Baker and Mark Kaplan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.