I've kept a sketchbook for years now (Art students, I know your teacher always says you should keep one, they're right), I
store my ideas in them in the form of drawings, collected ephemera (
clippings from
magazine, vintage tickets, found photos, single mysterious jigsaw pieces I find on the pavement) and hastily scribbled notes.
Comic strips, squirts of oil paint, art
magazine illustrations, and a host of textiles jostle for attention, and gestural paint strokes drawn directly from the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism carry the same compositional weight as newspaper
clippings of car thefts and department
store advertisements.