[2] Jean Busuttil was born in Birkirkara[3] on April 11 1920, the youngest of 11 children.

[4] Zaleski studied as an artist in the United States at Philadelphia's Moore College of Art and Design, and in New York at the Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and the Art Students League.

In 1986 she received a Susan B Anthony Award in the field of painting from the National Organization for Women[5] and was invited by President Jimmy Carter to the White House[2] as part of a delegation of five women artists in 1975.

This artists' book is designed in such a way that it can be viewed either as a regular two-page spread or as unfolded whole.

ISBN 9781896209203., edited by F. D. Reeve is illustrated with collage paintings by Zaleski.