Cirrus@Austlit

'When I arrived in Mildura and people heard I was into sign-writing, they immediately told me:

‘You’ve got to talk to Moose. He’s painted signs all over town for 40 years.’

‘He’s old school—refuses to work in digital.’

‘Lives in the old dairy in Merbein.’

‘Rides a Harley.’

‘You can find him playing his trumpet in the mall.’

'I had become interested in old signs—often known as ‘ghost signs’—a few years earlier. I loved the way they lingered in laneways or on the side of shops, sometimes more than a century old, whispering stories in faded paint. Coming across an old sign felt like finding a forgotten letter in a drawer, or a travel ticket tucked into a book.'  (Introduction)