When Nico returned her call, in her studio -- inspired by Exhibition of Paintings by the Late William Keith, the small leather bound book that had mysteriously led first to Kendrik's visit to the studio/workshop and then to Susanna -- for her class, Caydance was assembling artists book resonant objects that in some way were exhibition documentation. New additions were the artists book that Sonya Rapoport had created to document her storied 1982-1989 Shoe-Field installations and Terry Allen's Lubbock (On Everything) album, with his Texas-based installation detail cover image.

"I didn't have an exacto knife, Yes! paste, and brown paper with me," Caydance said to Nico on the telephone, "or I would have opened the back of the watercolor of Utah Beach then and there, while Susanna was with me. Should we ask the hotel management before I do this? "

"Just do it, that is what I would do. Confidentially, I have been quietly exploring the hotel ownership -- where it passed when Ted's Grandfather died -- and I did not ask permission." Nico paused.

arrow "The thing is, it appears that in his will, Ted's Grandfather left the hotel to Ted. Not just the studio/workshop, the entire hotel."