Over time I have accumulated a body of image fragments which I have called STUDIO PAPERS. They are fairly disorganized, not being stored according to a single classifying principle, such as number, date, or subject.  I like being able to go to them and find things at random. It is a kind of memory game, an extended play, with its surprises, disappointments and frustrations.

 Recently I found a sheet of paper with the letters ‘e’ and ‘p’ printed on it, which had been cut from something now forgotten.  At around the same time, I found some offcuts from drawings I had made in the 1970s with coloured pencils on tracing film. I glued these drawings to the ‘e’ and ‘p’ images and continued to work on what had come about. There is an element of time travel in the  process and the result;  two things superimposed to make a single image across time.

There is another piece called “The Lines” which is made in the same way. The drawing offcut from the 1970s is superimposed onto part of a photograph I took of the overhead electric lines on the Florence to Pisa railway.  Using this image is a way of remembering, commemorating even, the very many times I have made that particular journey.