Among the Fluxus artists books Caydance usually showed her class was Robert Filliou's Frozen Exhibition: photos and pieces of printed matter contained in a bowler hat that was frozen for ten years; then defrosted and exhibited. Filliou lived somewhere in the Dordogne River Valley in the South of France, she recalled as she looked through the slide viewer at the remnants of Frozen Exhibition.
This year, amidst new additions to the Fluxus class was Black experimental musician Benjamin Patterson's Hooked, an obviously used tackle box filled with fishing trip residue: a tiny book of fishing tips, fishing lures, a harmonica, a miniature bottle of J&B Scotch, a hotel room key. Caydance had seen this work in collector Jean Brown's home and was entranced by the way venerable used objects evoked a long ago fishing trip.
Thinking about the role of altered containers in artists book practice, she wondered if the source of the music box itself should be explored. It did not appear to be hand crafted by the artist who had altered it. Because of its 1950's aura, it could have been purchased at a place like Thrift Town on 17th and Mission. It was a long shot, but while Griff was preparing his team to play the Sacramento Valley Harriers, she would walk down to Thrift Town and see if anyone recollected that music box, and, if so, if there was a paper trail that identified who had bought it.