This book consists of indications of battles and wars from the year 1 to 1999. The battles are printed in micrographic text vertically, with the yearly dates placed vertically in the center of the pages. Miranda Maher designates on the cover that "Years with No Acts of 'OPEN AND DECLARED ARMED HOSTILE CONFLICT' are Indicated with a Perpendicular LIne. Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace." Actually there is only one red, vertical line in the year 329, indicating no battles. The book is printed on light weight, beige paper with repeating, gilded Fleurs de Lis, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is taken from Genesis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author writes, "Israeli artist Jacob El-Hanani has created his own variation on calligram micrography in his Constructivist style, using minute cursive Hebrew script to form a textured carpet of writing. Although the result differs from the traditional micrograph and calligram, his perseverance proves El-Hanani to be a true descendant of the Medieval masorah scribe." The Sackner Archive holds a work like Arvin has described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This sculpture is depicted on page 9 of exhibition catalogue, "Sculptures," Galerie Antoine Candau, 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bovine atlas (first cervical vertebra), Indian ink

The entire text of the Book of Exodus from the Old Testament is written in Hebrew creating a picture of the Red Sea parting and the Israelites passing through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.