This book reproduces some of the choicest cuts from two journals of mine that were filled more or less in tandem. I will often have several journals in various sizes, uses and stages of completion. I find this a necessary practice in relation to the way I go about forming an image or set of images in my mind before I ever put ink on paper. My journals will fill with vague sketches, life drawings, absent-minded default doodles, phone numbers, failed experiments, bad poetry, forgotten appointments, possible titles, old passwords, snatches of overheard conversations, neat phrases and compositional collage. In retrospect, journals can be incredibly revealing of the time they were made, or else puzzling and cryptic. I hope you enjoy their secrets.



Jonathan McBurnie

August 2012