Intrusive Thoughts

Artist Book, 2015

This work is a recent piece, created within a Chartwell Survey Book 2026.

I see my artist books as a log of my day to day life and thoughts. This book is a log of imagined ways in which I might die, as recorded on various days.

Intrusive thoughts are frightening thoughts about what might happen to you or someone you care about, or what you might do to yourself or another person. They seem to come from outside of your control, and their content feels alien and threatening. The yellow survey book serves as the perfect container to these threatening, and sometimes absurd, scenarios.