The Vogels met Martin Johnson around 1979, during an open studios event at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMAPS1) in Long Island City, New York, where he was among the first group of artists granted workspace in the building. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he created hundreds of small mixed-media “bricolage” reliefs that were installed floor-to-ceiling in densely packed salon-style exhibitions. His compositions incorporated found objects and cultural ephemera—including cake-topper figurines, taco shop bumper stickers, and other people’s discarded artworks—often including pun-like juxtapositions of words and image. In this work, four cheap plastic bride-and-groom ornaments are placed around the corners of an interior square frame containing a restaurant souvenir sticker slightly altered to read: “So of the Order.”