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Valoch seems to have cut part of ablack annoucement card with fragmented letters and year in yellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

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This partially completed, archival, flip-lid box collaged with product labels on inside and outside sufaces is among the first of Furnival's visual poetic labeled collaged boxes. It contains a certification and an astronomy map of a star named after Marvin Sackner that was a birthday gift from Majorie Weber on his 70th birthday, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Furnival reproduced lessons from 51 language grammers as drawings in that language and arranged them in vertical fashions. He also included such signs as cattle brands and petroglyphs reflecting the far West influence on him during a year's sabbatical in New Mexico where this screen was executed. He recounted to the Sackners on the number of hours spent on this work - 1250 hours! This screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) pages 50-51. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is completely textural and relates to the British poet, William Davies, who lived in the town of Nailsworth. Each line of text begins with the letter I, e.g. I is for Implements In May, I am the Poet Davies, William In Neath Valley, etc. This is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Valoch seems to have cut part of ablack annoucement card with fragmented letters and year in yellow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The box was made from wooden fragments of commercial shipping crates that were printed or stenciled with the names of commercial products. A large surface of one lid is the actual tympan from the letterpress at Bath College with residuals of colored inks from student mistakes; the title is stenciled onto it. Inner surfaces of the box have been collaged with paper labels and stenciled with words, who? & where? in different languages. The box holds Furnival prints such as the Nailsworth series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.