I have always enjoyed making small works. The immediacy and intimacy of the scale permits a very intense and focused exchange both when making and viewing the work. Moving from my larger works into smaller ones brings with it a shift in attitude and process. Large searching marks are replaced by precision and tightness, the complex scope is replaced by a minimized sense of space, and the multi-layered motives which govern my larger works are replaced by a singular desire. In the end, I find this shift beneficial to both bodies of work, the large to the small and the small to the large. Initially I used my smaller works to inform my larger drawings. Now the exchange goes both ways and the smaller drawings have taken on their own unique slant and place within my practice. When I find myself fixated, I find a small piece of paper and indulge that impulse. Small works are all about that obsession. To carry in our pocket the fleeting objects of our desire.