Writings on paper. The impetus for the paintings was first hatched in the early 1990s. I had a thought that the invention of the retail internet would bring about the death of handwriting, an idea that I believe is more profound than at first glance. I decided to transcribe human mark-making and all the handwriting I could muster. My thoughts at the time about handwriting and its slow demise has turned prophetic. The work is conceived of and made of writing. I work from left to right, up to down. Sometimes turning the piece upside down for a layer. The physical making of the work is very much a palimpsest. Layers of mark making, residues of my hand. In this sense the work is directly influenced by histories of handwriting. However in the context of today my intent goes beyond just the physicality of the mark. I view handwriting in part as a packet of data, similar to how the internet of data works. Of course handwriting itself is a utility that barley exists at scale anymore. I want to fill the chasm between the demise of handwriting and code, probably a somewhat dubious plan. The work mines ideas of secret languages, cryptography, hand ciphers, structures of language itself, repositories of data, handwritten documents, graffiti, or even ancient star charts. At least that’s how I see it.