Figure 1 Carlan family photograph

Figure 2 A rare in-stance in which both the happy and sad moments are captured on film.

Figure 3 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Traces, detail, 2003, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 40 x 440cm.

Figure 4 At the beach.

Figure 5 Shāna Carlan Riddell, Traces, detail, 2003, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 40 x 440 cm.

Figure 6 From left: Cosmos, Aunt Laura's Evening Bag, Greetings From Vietnam and Dr Zhivago, Shāna Carlan-Riddell, 2004, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 160 x 40 cm.

Figure 7 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Mom's Pearls (detail), 2004, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 130 x 120 cm, diptych.

Figure 8 The tear-drop trailer, 1956.

Figure 9 A still from The Patty Duke Show (Douglas, 1994, p. 150).

Figure 10 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, The First Shoes I Wore Out, 3-dimensional triptych, 2002, photomechanical screenprinting and oil on board, 40 x 120 cm.

Figure 11 Kit and Shāna (aka Kim) Carlan, 1962, California.

Figure 12 General Dwight Eisenhower.

Figure 13 J.P Carlan, aka "Bud" Carlan, 1960, Redwood City, Ca.

Figure 14 My Father's Chevy convertible.

Figure 15 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Cosmos, detail, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 160 cm x

Figure 16 Barbara Eden as Jeannie in I dream of Jeannie.

Figure 17 The lead characters from Bewitched - Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha), Agnes Moorhead (Endora) and Dick York (Darren).

Figure 18 Robert Indiana, Love, 1966, oil on canvas, 182.7 x 182.7 cm, Indianapolis Museum of Art (The American Art Book, 1999, p. 219).

Figure 19 Andy Warhol, detail from Soup Can, 1961-2, Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (20th Century Art, 2000)

Figure 20 Roy Lichtenstein, Blam!, 1962, oil on canvas, 68 x 80 inches, Yale University Art Gallery (The American Art Book, 1999, p. 138).

Figure 21 Greeting Card, 1 August 1969. Sent to me by my father from Vietnam.

Figure 22 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Greetings from Vietnam, 2004, photomechanical screen printing, oil and acrylic on board, 40 x 160 cm.

Figure 23 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Jump Slide Run, triptych, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board.

Figure 24 Mary Frank, What Color Lament? 1991-93, acrylic and oil on board, 70 x 168 inc

Figure 25 Mary Frank, Kazakstan, 1990, oil on metal, 20 x 16 inches, held by the artist (Collischan, 2000).

Figure 26 A page from Mary Frank's diary detailing her use of the 'sculputural' book form for presenting her paintings (Collischan, 2000)

Figure 27 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Poised, 2004, Photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 130 x 50 x 50 cm.

Figure 28 John Pule, Rising, Falling - Hakeaga, Patopato, detail, 2004 oil on stretched canvas with pencil, oil sticks, ink, artnews New Zealand, Spring 2004, p. 48

Figure 29 Kandinsky, Swinging, 1925, oil on board, 70.5 x 50.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London (20th Century Art, 2000).

Figure 30 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Skip, 2003, photomechanical screen printing and oil and acrylic on board, 40 x 40 cm.

Figure 31 The fusiform and angular gyrus' are the areas of the brain responsible for synesthesia (after Ramachandran, 2003).

Figure 32 My studio in Rotorua, 2004.

Figure 33 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Aunt Laura's Evening Bag (detail) 2004, photomechanical screen printing, oil and acrylic on board, 40 x 160 cm.

Figure 34 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Traces (detail), 2003, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board, 40 x 440 cm.

Figure 35 Kit, Sandra and Shāna. The Carlan family photo that has been used in several paintings, and which has been reconstructed, obscured and disrupted.

Figure 36 Shāna Carlan-Riddell, Consuming Culture (detail), 2004, photomechanical screen printing and oil on board.

Figure 37 The artist as a Girl Scout.