Math Paper

I found a tiny, old (100 years) math instruction book in my favorite bookshop in Brooklyn, Spoonbill & Sugartown. I was feeling broke and it was $10.00. I kept picking it up, putting it back, carrying it while I looked around. Eventually I bought it.
I find books of math to be mysterious and beautiful. They inspire me. The book was ragged and falling apart. It was not valuable, to anyone but me.
There were questions; how many this and how many that, but some were complicated and old fashioned. There were questions about apples and trains and farms and miles, all about men. I wanted to make some work that was more spontaneous.
Some of these drawings were inspired by photographs of water towers by Bernd and Hilla Becher. Some were made after I saw an exhibit of work by Lynda Benglis exhibit and others were taken from notes I wrote when I was at an opening and felt overwhelmed by social anxiety.
I do not regret the purchase of the little book.