At first, there is paint and desire. Paint is applied, removed, and applied 
again. It makes suggestions.It is edited without mercy. The image and the need to signify arrive later. Books as images within these paintings offer formal modernist possibilities while also serving as an embodiment 
of content.

Both paintings and books are vessels for ideas, experience and memory. 
The books we read and the paintings we love and choose to live with, 
define us. A book requires the reader to assemble images and ideas out 
of its signs and symbols. Likewise, a painting asks that you translate its strokes and drips into reason and emotion.



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