Look Closer.

The Pocket Japanese Moleskine Book.  

The Japanese Moleskine Book is not an ordinary sketchbook and it offers different possibilities from other books. It is not bound from the spine of its cover, and the pages fold out into one continuous piece of paper that all told; is approximately 9 feet long.  There are 31 pages on each side but for this particular experiment, I utilized only one side.  It reads from right to left.

I treated this book as a sketchbook, meaning I approached it one page at a time and there was no grand design by what was created and virtually no planning as to the outcome of the work.  In the beginning, the concepts were only based on the few lines I carried over from previous compositions and no preliminary sketching was done in pencil.  What you see is what you get.  

In the end the book became 16 separate and individual compositions that all evolved and transgressed into each other over the span of the 31 pages.  Within the 16 compositions; others can be joined together to create additional and larger visual progressions.  

As I moved through it, it became a sequence in thoughts and relationships for which themes began to emerge. Eventually it served me as a companion for many contemplations on life from an ecological as well as an existential point-of-view.