Recycled Series (2008-2012) - While walking near a friend's house in Sasebo, Japan, I passed the recycling center. Inside were bales of recycled paper being prepared for transport. The image of their surface was striking to me, like a Harnett trompe l'oeil painting, and the structure of the bales made me think of Don Judd's boxes. I didn't see the bales as garbage, but as a comment on art history, part of the continuum of image making. For me it carried everything from Lichtenstein's cartoon paintings, to Jackson Pollock's all-over composition.