Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Centre right (c.r.) in ballpoint pen: Broad ledge- exit Oedipus, Antigone entrance 2 women citizens - 1st scene; verso: [stage set crossed out] Oedipus
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Hotere: u.l.-l.r. in pencil: green purple blue red orangy yellow red yellow orange green blue violet purple too cramped [numerals].
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere; through image in pencil: [numerals]; verso in ink: [unfinished sketch].
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’65; l.c. in pencil: Drawings for black paintings. Zero is round, zero is black, zero is zero; u.c. in pencil: too small - zero is round; l.l. in pencil: crap; l.l. in…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere ’69; C. in red fibre tipped pen: delete; l.c. in red fibre tipped pen: All is black and there is no black? (Suzuki).
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Working drawing for Stations of the Cross. Hotere; l.c. in ballpoint pen: Jeffrey Harris, 9 Cashmere View Rd, Christchurch; through image: [numerals & colour notes].