I have made books for the past fifteen years or so. The combination of text with drawing lends the images both philosophical voice and lyric plaint. In all of the books I have made the text arises out of the process of developing the drawings, and I have entertained the conceit that it is the voice of the drawings themselves that I am recording. In recent books I have used text that exists beforehand, from notebooks or odd scraps of notes, or sometimes written in rumination away from the work itself, and then included at a later moment. But the impulse is ever the same: to achieve answers to the questions and discomfit that under gird the necessity of art. Many of the books are made in tandem with paintings.

All examples of individual book pages (often referred to as spreads) include a transcription of the text that appears on that page. This text is found on the web page below the image of the spread.

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