The Sketchbook Exchange

Last year I became involved in an extensive sketch book swapping endeavor. Built on an idea of instant ephemera, artists give up the property, ideas of preciousness, market value and embrace trespass, violation and loss. It is an opportunity to observe your personal relationship to the object as you give up control in an intended way. We give up control at many stages of producing, exhibiting and selling our work, sometimes without having any level of experience of this type of loss. Having lost many of my paintings through commercial venues, it is interesting to do it as a conscious exercise. Here are some sample pages from two ongoing projects.