To begin In preparation for these lectures, I made a list of projects, drawings, films, installations and performances I could use as the spine of these talks—each lecture having a project, to be used both as a reference to what I was talking about, and also as raw material with which to think. Thinking in cardboard, or breath, or ink, or charcoal, or gesture. I wrote down all the projects I’ve done over the last ten years. But then the list expanded from a list of specific films and installations and theatre productions to a larger list of all the things I had drawn in my forty-seven years in the studio. I have drawn: AN ACACIA TREE, A PAPINO, TWO LOVERS, A PINSTRIPED SUIT, A MAN IN A PINSTRIPED SUIT, A COFFEE-POT, ANOTHER COFFEE-POT, THIRTY-EIGHT RHINOCERI. A list many pages long.…