As classes rolled around and were taught again a year later, some professors pulled out the same syllabus. Caydance made changes. Not only was it common for students to repeat a studio class because they wanted to continue creating work in the field, but also in the first class of the Fall, Caydance imagined that both her students and she herself were starting on a new journey.

Last Fall, her artists books class began with published artists book editions. Unusual examples were a facsimile of the 15th Century French manuscript Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and a red View-Master, accompanied by a Huckleberry Hound Lands on the Moon ViewMaster reel. Expected examples included her signed copy of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations and a well-worn copy of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings.

This year the manuscript that the music box contained inspired her to add more medieval manuscripts to the syllabus. Other than Tres Riches Heures, she did not have facsimiles, but before she passed books around the class, she would show a few slides -- beginning with Matthew Paris' extraordinary 13th century Map of Britain.