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This week's sketchbook page is the end page from one of my books. Ephemera, magazine images, and a fortune – can anyone translate this?

This page from one of my journals has torn swatches of color from an advertisement, a map, and an image from La Sonámbula. I'm picky about print quality, so a book with 25 copies means a lot of misprints.

Layers of vellum that obscure and reveal a magazine tear sheet and one of my grandfather's photo's. The image is from my Leiffing Through History piece: an installation, assemblage, and artist book dedicated to him.

The first time I heard Sonic Youth, I felt as if a kindred, angry sister was singing directly to me. Decades later, I now see her in a new light – as a visual artist. Design Office: The City Is A Garden is her new installation at 303 Gallery that features large-scale works on paper.

This week's random journal page includes a sketch for the wearable books – both the finished one and thoughts on how to make wax paper disks for the second.

If we're Facebook friends, you have already seen me share Every Single Word, a Tumblr account that edits major motion pictures down to the words spoken by people of color. Dylan Marron makes a powerful statement about the presence of non white speaking roles in Hollywood with his powerful edits.

Bansky's Dismaland opened this month and I wish I could fly across the pond to visit. They released a commercial for the artistic theme park this week that does it much more justice than the still images and GIFs that have been populating my social media lately.

Anna Malina is an talented artist who explores self identity through Polaroids, journals, and animated GIFS. I really love her dreamy, introspective work. Bringing the GIF – traditionally used for memes and other silly stuff – to her fine art practice inspired me.

This week's random page from one of my books. A reject print from La Sonámbula with some waxed paper – one of my favorites for book covers and end pages.

I have been chosen as one of the artists for Zatara Press' newest Group Book: Life, Love, Reality, Dream.