She looked out the oriel window at the gray bluegreen Pacific Ocean in the distance. The issues with art and life, she observed, which were inescapable in the content of the book object without a key, occurred again on the exterior in an image of Chris Burden, disguised as a "garcon", serving more than 300 cups of cappuccino at Hansen Fuller Gallery. "In this case," she wrote in her notebook," the artist has accompanied the image with Burden's words: 'My attire and demeanor were such that only a handful of people out of the hundreds who attended the show recognized me...'"

arrow At this point it seemed important to verify -- as she was beginning to conclude without enough evidence -- that the creator of the book object without a key was Mackie Alarie. It was not a welcome conclusion.

Judith would know, but she had not yet contacted Judith.