The Want Ads where first created 1996 as a collaborative work between Pam Killan and Nadia Myre. Together they clandestinely stenciled graffiti in Vancouver’s Lower East Side and Commercial Drive areas in an effort to communicate their desire to meet people. In 2006 Myre recreated her word-plays as a series of watercolours for The Want Ads and Other Scars, an exhibition at Urban Shaman in Winnipeg.