books
on artist books
I make a lot of drawings, and I wanted them to have another life outside of my drawing practice.
There was also a desire on my part to get my work literally into the hands of people I have never
(and probably would never) meet.I started compliling my drawings into groups and adding the bits of converation that were in the
air or in my head when I was drawing them. Once I got a set of drawings that felt like a com-
plete story, I had them printed and bound. Then I mailed them anonymously to people in the
phone book, other artists, anyone whom I thought could use one.Some Men was the very first book I made, followed by les hommes d'affaires. The drawings
in these are made in sumi ink. I have started to develop books in other materials. Palimpsest was the first.on palimpsest
I started making these drawings in 2004. Most were made in the presence of the subject and I was not
thinking of them beyond the finished image. It was the first time I used architectural drafting film, or
mylar, as a surface. I was surprised by the layering of the images and wanted to use this quality to enforce a
narrative on a sequence of drawings. This narrative became Palimpsest. I printed the book myself on acid
free vellum and distributed it by mail.Unlike the other books, Some Men and les hommes d'affaires, Palimpsest has no text. It concentrates on the
relationships between the images rather than the relationship between image and text.
