A large-scale work executed in acrylic and ink on newsprint, Angus Fairhurst's *Unwritten (November 1st, 2002)* uses the ephemeral, everyday quality of newsprint as both ground and conceptual foil. The work plays with themes of impermanence and communication, the blank or obscured surface suggesting something withheld or yet to be articulated. Fairhurst's characteristic blend of dark humor and existential inquiry is embedded in the tension between the transient material and the deliberate, lasting act of mark-making.