Each card contains a single letter of the word, HOME, in different typefaces with a cryptic feminist phrase. The cards are attached by string to form a vertical row . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each card contains a single letter of the word, HOME, in different typefaces with a cryptic feminist phrase. The cards are attached by string to form a vertical row . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.