SUMMER SKETCHBOOKS

it was a good summer to keep sketchbooks. i'd found a job that had me travel all over the east coast, i was wrapping up a successful year of studying, and becoming madly in love with the person that's since become my wife.

the decision was to make a series of simple books i could put together in a pinch when i had a moment at home, using materials readily available : wax paper and folio paper for the cover, along with any kind of paper-like material i could find to put together the 32 pages of each sketchbook.

and while it only lasted for that summer i got to discover a way of making art that i still practice to this day. without much i am able to make earnestly. and now i hope to make things that are whole. those sketchbooks bridged a gap and brought these two ends together. i'd devised of a system, with randomly generated strings to insert and locate the ongoing production of these sketchbooks.

in truth, they are a proto-mmyope, where production leads to context. more than anything, that is what i carried over between these and what i do now.

they were made with an unplanned/unforeseen variety of paper stock, each giving me new approaches and materials to work with. creating loose threads to pick up and drop of as was necessary. they are kept in some drawer in my office, it is pleasant to take them out of their wrapper and see what i was on about in 2017.

brought together by their common intent. small drawings, unbothered.
little sketchbooks putting a nice time to task.