For an artist interested in finding ways to record bits of everyday experience, the question becomes how to structure a response that remains faithful to specific details but also creates a visually interesting result. In the summer of 2010, with the recorded walks of early conceptual artists On Kawara and Richard Long in mind, I playfully assigned myself the task of marking the paths of my evening walks, adding a treasure hunt component by collecting bits of appealing street ephemera on the way. I then screenprinted shapes of the area circumscribed, used the found paper as a color guide and tagged them to the image. The result is a recording of nothing important, but a true record nonetheless.

Although those who know my work will find this series of 30 prints to be different in concept from what I usually show, they are really a part of a longtime but often private studio practice that I affectionately call my little tallies. In the 20 odd years that I have been making art, I have often worked on side projects that were forms of visual diaries—small books responding to current events, collage made from bits of studio projects, sometimes just a collection of organized and dated scraps kept from the debris of my daily work. There is a deep satisfaction that these little projects give me as a way to gather and transform transient moments as days and years pass by.