Book 59  Lesley and the Rabbish Penn, C. (2009) (Fig. 58). Lesley and the Rabbish. Limited edition artist’s book. Edition of 5.  Inkjet print fold book, copy of drawing by Lesley Magwood-Fraser. Bone. Bockingford 120 grm paper.  15cm x 10.5 cm opening out to 30cm x 21cm.  Book 59. Various collections.

Dr Cloe Preston of the University of Genetic Technology in Durban has written to Dr Pansengrass who she met in Paris at a conference on biochemical warfare and gene manipulation. In the letter she writes of an artist (Lesley Magwood-Fraser) who supplied an artist’s impression of a  creature at the stadium which she was the first to see.   It has been named a Rabbish until further information about it has been received.

The creature is to be  found burrowing under the Moses Mabhida Stadium.  No one has managed to catch one alive, but one body has been discovered.   Doctor Preston is asking Dr Pansengrass for his critical  analysis of this creature.  To this end she has supplied known information on the animal and a bone fragment for DNA testing.

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