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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

In Camera / Gloria Helfgott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09480-9668
Scope and Contents

The book object and box have the shapes of pentagons. Each side is perforated to serve as a camera obscura so that the viewer can visualize an image from the book object or outside of it through the opposite side of the pentagon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pranayama Bhramari / Gloria Helfgott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09481-9669
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pranayama Bhramari / Gloria Helfgott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09481-9669
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991