Thanks for the link to your new site. Arthur, thanks for telling us about Josh.

Yes, the appeal of art on paper has much to do with texture. You don’t have to work it over, cover it up, the way you do with canvas and other supports. (Granted there are artists like Morris Louis who do interesting things with raw canvas.) For me, this appeal is as much tactile as it is visual. I project on to the work memories or ideas of making marks on paper–drawing, painting and writing.

Hi Josh,

I wrote about your work before here, as you may remember. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for not asking what I’d been smoking — and I think I’ll just let the phrase fade away as though I’d never said it.

I remembered one thing, though, that I had been thinking about and that was that I too like works on paper — the fragility of the medium often means the images have a lightness to them.

And I like the texture of paper. The web images drive me nuts because I want to see what kind of paper is used. Hand-pulled prints are wonderful, but I find it essential to see them in person — the imprint of the support medium onto the paper becomes an important element of the process.