"I should add that his interest was genuine", Jean Brown replied. "He told me that he was creating a series of artists books that integrated his life as an artist with certain other not yet known to the public aspects of his work as a whole. He gave me an address in Berkeley. But when I wrote him a letter there asking for slides of this work, it came back 'addressee unknown'".

"In my collection," she added, "he was particularly interested in book objects that revealed or hid mysteries."

"Such as Ay-O's finger boxes, Brecht's Closed on Mondays, Filliou's Frozen, Yoko Ono's Everson Museum Catalog?" Caydance asked.

studio icon But Jean did not respond, and Caydance understood her hesitation. What people looked at in private collections could to a certain extent be considered private.