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Peri book by Penelope Todd found at the Sumner free cart (Scarborough), read in a tent pitched on Paul Johns’ garden, brought back to Island Bay studio and transformed into an artwork; Tarzan’s Grip Glue, oil based enamel (blue, black, gold), plaster, oil pastel, chalk, fragment of a $10 note, metal band, epoxy, copper, verso back page of book reversed (found text/marks in pen), airport sticker for baggage claim to WLG –  HARTFIELD/BENJI JQ 286 02JUN21, bull-clip

15.2 x 20 x 2.5cm

Provenance: Christchurch, June 2021

So… How’s Tricks Moriarty?

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Archie types above.

Now I will transcribe details of So… How’s Tricks Moriarty?

Peri book by Penelope Todd found at the Sumner free cart (Scarborough), read in a tent pitched on Paul Johns’ garden, brought back to Island Bay studio and transformed into an artwork; Tarzan’s Grip Glue, oil based enamel (blue, black, gold), plaster, oil pastel, chalk, fragment of a $10 note, metal band, epoxy, copper, verso back page of book reversed (found text/marks in pen), airport sticker for baggage claim to WLG –  HARTFIELD/BENJI JQ 286 02JUN21, bull-clip

15.2 x 20 x 2.5cm

Provenance: Christchurch, June 2021