Vision is a hard thing to articulate. As an artist I really do believe a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ve put together a portfolio book to succinctly show process, mission and objective. I wanted to concentrate on one aspect of the work I’m doing right now: weathered textures and scratched patterns releasing figurative birds as metaphor for lightness and hope out of adversity.

These days it’s easy to create a book and there are a number of online outlets (I happened to have used Blurb), allowing photos for that family reunion, a cuteness record of your dog’s greatest accomplishments, or (lucky for working professionals in the visual arts) an album of your blood, sweat and tears.

It’s been an exciting and revelatory process, allowing me a greater sense of my body of work as a whole. Though time-consuming and at times tedious the end product has been greatly rewarding. How often in life to we get to hold in our hands the accumulation of our labors? I highly recommend it.