Inconsolable Jubilation. Unique book of solvent transfers and graphite drawings on black and white handmade paper. Coptic bound in acetate with waxed linen thread. c. 150 x 150 x 20mm. Canberra: Ampersand Duck, 2005.

Created for the exhibition Black and White Books. I gave it the following statement:
Darkness is not always negative.
This is a book on thinking about black and sharing problems

It's a very hard book to reproduce, as the drawings are graphite on hand-made black paper. I made the book, then took it to my life drawing group and drew in it. The group is made up of close friends from art school (both male and female), and we'd take turns to model for each other and while we drew we'd discuss our personal problems and relationships, many of which were intertwined. So the drawings in the book are of my friends at their most vulnerable, and accompanied by snatches of the conversations, both happy and sad.