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Steen, Vagn

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Ant - hill, ant - words, ant - special workers / Steen, Vagn., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-40644-42618
Scope and Contents

This work was printed by Magnus Sandberg. It depicts a cluster of written words arranged in the shape of a hill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Mane / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28172-29335
Scope and Contents

Mane in English = conjure and Mane with accent over 'a' = moon. Steen utilizes opened and closed parenthesis and a circle over the 'a' of "mane" to suggest cycles of the moon related to the word "conjure." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Right Left / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28175-29338
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication to the Sackners from Steen, he wrote the following. Steen wrote the words "right left' once, then he made left more left by spelling left backwards, e.g. tfel, written upright, and then turns it more to the left, in fact by writing it normally and mirroring it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

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