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April 1970
Y2

MINNIE EVANS
2

and you know I think some nations or other just looked after butterflies as being a lucky something or another.

NHS: Now we have another painting with lions on it. A large 20x24 painting with two lions. One on each side and at the bottom are some swans in a beautiful pool. Can you tell me is that the same dream or a different dream?

ME: Now, say that again. 

SILENCE

ME: Cut that off again. My ears hurt. I can't ever make two pictures alike you know. And I don't know which the other one looked more like the other lion but it's the same dream. It's different and I made a different picture with the twelve stars and have been thinking about making another. I don't know why but when it come to me and it keep worrying me about to go and paint a picture then I got to go do something about it. I am surprised at my own work. I look at some of them and you know and I have to say did I do that? (laughter)

NHS: Do you have swans at Airlie? Were there ever swans at Airlie?

ME: Swans?

NHS: Yes

ME: Yes, but I can just do that in my mind.

NHS: Do they have them at Airlie?

ME: Yes. We have them at Airlie. We have the white swans and the black swans too but I haven't seen the black swans in a good while but they have them there. They get out and strut up and down the road and hold up traffic cause people don't want to hurt them (laughter). And this they look so strange look like someone else did it. I can't get my own work and I didn't know I had this with this I got a lot more of these. They are very strange to me. My own work. How did I do that and this and this. I thought I had left these home this morning. I had a boy round there looking 

NHS: I brought these down from New York. I brought them down from New York. Do you understand. I brought them down from New York.

ME: I see. these here?

NHS: Yes, all of these

ME: Oh, that's a big shoe.

ME: Now Minnie's got a book a notebook with a spiral top and she calls it her angel book and we are going to look at them one by one and she's going to tell me about them. Now will you tell me about your angel book Minnie?