This exhibition was held in Washington, D.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book which can be read left to right or right to left, consists of several pages of three letter acronyms of airports throughout the world arranged in a grid. The size of the type face becomes progressively larger until only one three letter acronym is printed per page. The center section contains curved lines connecting dots, resembling airplane routes between cities. Also included are pages in English and Japanese of descriptive phrases printed in black and white checkerboard blocks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ashley Hicks contributed a critical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The overall wall sculpture consists of cardboard, red painted, false bricks to form alters; this object has shelves to hold book objects. The center altar has a doll which appears to be an angel. The title of this work was taken from a trade edition book that constitutes an element of the sculpture. The pages of the latter are collaged with text that has been cut-up and rearranged, sometines upside down, so that it is reminiscent of a language that once might have been interpretable but can no longer now be deciphered. The book objects placed on the shelf reference this imagined civilization. One of the book objects depicts a colored collaged photographic print of the 1970's American television character, Molly Goldberg, with arms outstretched as if posing a question, enclosed within a frame dated in hand lettering as 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition included the maquette for "The Ruined Book" by N. Bell and B. Langlands. A copy of "The Ruined Book" is held by the Sackner Archive. Books by Johanknecht, Campbell and Tilson reproduced in this catalogue are held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.