the index project (a deconstructed artist's book) is an attempt to gather together and privilege the generally private, unconsidered outer reaches of my studio life, as well as the full range of images moving through my thoughts in the course of working. Physically, the project comprises more than two-hundred pages of Xeroxed sketchbook pages, Xeroxed notes, quick collages, fragments of colored paper and other studio ephemera. The pages are not bound, thereby allowing for easy reshuffling as new pages arise. The use of a Xerox machine in reproducing images privileges accumulation and inclusion instead of edited selection. I am interested in the paradox of locating comprehension within the nearly incomprehensible glut of imagery and ideas permeating my studio.

the index project has been shown at three venues in 2008: The Greenhill Center in Greenboro, North Carolina, the Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, Ohio and at Calvin College's Gallery (106) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Each viewing yielded a different configuration of the project.