SENTENCES: HOUSEHOLD NAME. Medieval style tapestry. Fabricated in the Victoria Tapestry Works, Melbourne, Australia through an interpretation of a colour drawing of mine. Collection of the artist and incorporated into a time based work called LOOKING FOR A GOOD ANCESTOR II which was in an exhibition of Canadian textile based art, If Images Speak a Thousand Words curated by Ruth Scheuing and Dorthy Caldwell at the Round House Gallery in Vancouver.

(See Exhibition Record in "Background" This work is in the artist's collection and available for purchase.

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The text for SENTENCES: HOUSEHOLD NAME was found in the Canadian Newspaper, "The Globe and Mail" and concerned the visit of a Canadian federal member of parliament who visited South Africa at a time when it was federal policy to have cut off official relations with the apartheid government. The politician, a minister of culture, was excited to have met a writer who worked in the house where President Mandela had been, and, who the politician claimed had "plotted" prior to his being part of the so called "Rivonia Trials" which sentenced Mr. Mandela for life as a political prisoner on Robben Island.