Artists' book with texts by R.H. Quaytman, and Jef Geys. "The three texts that comprise this book were written between 2005 and 2007, coinciding with the three year life-space of Orchard. The book's first essay "Allegorical Decoys," was conceived originally as a side lecture, which was presented at a symposium on painting and photography for the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College in the summer of '06. In it I describe the circuitous genealogy of my current approach to painting. The wrappers [dust-jacket] of this book when unfolded provides the illustrations for this text. 'Call of the Wind,' was a poem I composed in the summer of '07. Its source material is from a recorded transcript of a visit I made to Thomas Eggerer's studio which he discussed at length a painting of the same title. Lastly, 'Translatrix' was originally written for a talk I presented with Dirk Snauwaert on the Belgian artist, Jef Geys, whose work we had the good fortune to show at Orchard."