“I picked you!, I picked you!,” the ghostly voice cried out from my dream. He stood before me looking haggard and very thin. His hair had turned from silver to bright white. I felt sad, even though, in the dream, I had returned to the house on the river. AT the end of the dream, I held him close as he repeated, “But, I picked you…”

Do you remember watching detective shows on television? The suspense as the detective unfolds the ransom note created using individual clippings of letters or words glued onto a piece of paper. No recognizable handwriting here! Ransom note lettering is an aesthetic of 1970’s British Punk culture, influenced by the DaDaists who, for many of us, invented collage with a rebellious attitude, embracing everything NOT the norm.