I wanted my work to contain the elements of comic book line work to which I personally respond. While I enjoy comics at face value I didn’t always look at comic books as a form of entertainment. I wondered at the pages themselves and the world they created. The  faces and figures within to me were always the synthesis of lines. The illusory movements and magical flourishes by the unseen hands of skilled people. I wondered how each mark was made. I searched out people who could show me and spent time building my own language of line to create that world.

As I struggled to find a method the answer was always at hand. The marks I make are as personal and connected to me as the veins that swirl through me. I began to make study after study of these lines shapes and effects that exist in my work. This became a lexicon a heavy stack of pages filled with ink marks. These marks became my elements by which I began to assemble my new work.