Dictionary, acrylic paint

Exhibition: ...text me, 2006, Devonport Regional Gallery, Devonport

Um.,~ is painted in an old English Dictionary of my fathers (replete with crossed out addresses of where he has lived and travelled since his youth), and its an object which I love and use all the time, as much for its connection to my dad as for its old world kind of language. The "um" section has been whited out, leaving only all ums in a multitude of fonts, also commas, full stops and dashes.