The prints in this suite, made in September 2006, derive from a series of mixed media collages completed between 2001-3.

I see these images as pictures of thinking: The lines of text look like neurons in the brain; the space between, the synaptic gap. The neurotransmitter - your thought or mine - fires across the gap. This thought, or interpretation, links the quotes by recognizing some similarity between them, however disparate they may appear. In fact, this is simply a restatement of Freud’s theory of dreams: “It is the task of the interpretation to reinsert the omitted relations.” Aristotle said it this way: “But the greatest thing by far is to be master of metaphor, [which]… implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.”

The images suggest Walter Benjamin’ Arcades Project and medieval monks’ florilegia - works composed almost exclusively of juxtaposed quotes. As Derrida wrote of his Glas, another work of juxtaposition: It “hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rule of its play.” The drawings look like graffiti and aerial maps. One viewer has called them “visual intertextuality.”

Pigment Prints made in collaboration with David Adamson at Adamson Editions, Washington, DC and Michael Dennis, Bath Bookworks, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Printed on Crane Museo 330gsm paper using an archival Ultrachrome K3 inkset.