Books have been an essential, but not consistent, part of my art practice. The combination of text with drawing lends the images both philosophical voice and lyric plaint. Text is a transgression of image, and vice versa. 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 some 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. But the impulse is ever the same: to achieve answers to the questions and discomfit that undergird the necessity of art. Many of the books are made in tandem with paintings.

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