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Red Wine, Red Roses and Red Hot Sex (for Sacha): 3 books: flutter, concertina binding and pop-up; manipulated & recycled letterpress prints. Paper, ink, cork, threads. Unique. Canberra: Ampersand Duck, 2006. Private collection.

Made for a group exhibition called "The Power of Red" at the Redcliffe City Art Gallery in Queensland. A very close girlfriend lives in Redcliffe, and it was her 40th birthday that year. I asked her what she thought of when she thought of red, and this was her answer. I printed a poster using these words and then made three books from the posters, one for each red thing. Then I gave her the books and a poster for her present. She seemed pretty pleased.