This is the catalog for a special exhibition at the Babcock Galleries on June 5, 2003 in celebration of Harriet Bart’s artist’s books “The Poetry of Chance Encounters” and “In The Presence of Absence”. Included are full-color illustrations (some fold-out) of Bart’s works separated into the categories of commissions, installations, and objects / books. A complete list of illustrations is located at the back of the catalog.