Box in a Valise Although she seldom worked this early for the following week's class, restlessly she began selecting slides -- looking for three boxlike constructions from which questions would arise about the differences between these works and the Fluxus boxes. The class would probably be familiar with Joseph Cornell's work, so from his shadow box constructions, Caydance choose Celestial Navigation -- because of its wartime association with astronomy and the Hayden Planetarium, because of the way it evoked multiple interpretations, and because of its fragile beauty. Next because of its sprawling narrative of journey and identity, it would be Marcel Duchamp under the alias of Rrose Sélavy’s Box in a Valise.

studio icon And finally an informal work created by a friend who lived in the Berkeley Hills, Sonya Rapoport’s Pandora's Box.