C aydance got up, brushed her hair, made coffee and crumpets with unsalted butter and marmalade. Put the dishes in the sink. Outside, it was softly raining. It seldom rained in California in September. She pulled a sweater on over her nightgown and using a hand-held miniature viewer, began sorting slides for her next class. It was possible to project them on the wall, but that wasn't an experience with which to begin the day.

As she looked through her collection of slides of Fluxus artists books, she was thinking about the final image on the scroll that protruded from the book object which Major Knox sent her before he went wherever he went. It was a silhouette of Lowell Darling, holding a sculptural hand on a stick, campaigning for Governor of California in 1978. Promising to turn parking meters into slot machines that gave prizes, promising to give everyone Wednesdays off, Lowell got about 62,000 votes.

studio icon Deciphering the meaning of this final visible image on the Arches paper tape seemed important, but this was not the question that Caydance wanted to ask a Fluxus objects collector, who lived in a Shaker Seed House in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts.