 He worked on these series over the summer of 2007/2008 on his McCahon House residency, and showed "Second Empire" at the Lopdell House Gallery.The "Bible Studies (New Testament)" works were first shown at the Adam Art Gallery and then re-presented at Starkwhite Gallery in Auckland.Continuing the methods he used in "Empire" and "Second Empire", the large-format c-type prints each feature a detail of an image appropriated from a 1968 illustrated children's bible, overlaid with an embroidered patch bearing a two or three-word phrase from Goethe's play "Faust".