The Canadian branch of PEN, the international writers’ organization that campaigns for freedom of expression, requested a fundraising poster. The creative mandate was to communicate, graphically and memorably, the plight of writers who have been imprisoned, tortured, and even executed for publishing their views. Blending illustration and photocollage, “A Loss for Words” illustrates the horror felt by silenced writers as well as the deprivation experienced by the community at large. The illustration was painted directly onto pages taken from a suppressed Solzhenitsyn novel.