I am writing this in 2012. More than 30 years have passed since I set to work on this; but the hold that these various ancient seeming influences had on me remains quite palpable even now.  I have not actively analyzed ANY of this stuff for decades; yet is is still very accessible for me as I write this.  I am amazed at what a sponge I seemed to have been.  In such a short period of time I seemed to have attempted to understand, assimilate, imitate, or even just out and out steal so much!  The themes of these “influnces” seem pretty obvious in hindsight: creation, non-self obsessed and perceptive authorship, reproduction (in the biological as well as aesthetic sense), and even a kind of 2+2=5 transcendence over mediocrity and limitation.  I am not sure that any of these qualities made it into the finished product of my work; but they were definitely in the air around me at the time - mine to notice, mine to appropriate, mine to misuse and to misunderstand in any way that I could say had inspired me to create this idiosyncratic grouping of 73 drawings.



When I started this project I was a sophomore in college.  When I finished, I was 7 months post graduation.  When I started I had yet to land my first restaurant job. When I finished I was well on my way in this McJob career. I had done so many things in this time that transformed who I was; yet I managed to stay with this project for the necessary years until it was done.  Whatever else one can say about it, I regard it as testament to my own peculiar form of perseverance.