<em>Please may I go out (Peter Hooper)</em>, 1969
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Please may I go out (Peter Hooper), 1969

Record number
cm000587
Title

Please may I go out (Peter Hooper)

Date
1969
Medium
conté
Support
paper
Dimensions
1498 x 545 mm (s)
Inscriptions

'Please may I go out' Peter Hooper / Colin McCahon Aug 26. 69 (conté crayon, b.r.)

Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1980/82/2
Extended inscriptions

I'm not a bum / I've got a bank account / but I couldn't / go on any longer / making money / teaching lies
I need to find / a new kind of truth / or maybe only / a very old truth / or just look | at things / that mightn't be here / tomorrow
I've stepped off / an island / I'm afloat / do you know / any direction / worth sailing?

Exhibition history

1969 Written paintings and drawings: Colin McCahon
Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland
6/10/1969 - 17/10/1969

Notes

The text is from Peter Hooper's poem 'Please may I go out', from Journey towards an elegy and other poems (Nag's Head Press, Christchurch, 1969).