In 2011, I was invited by curator Guy Morag from Israel to participate in the Plain Notebook Project. Mr. Morag had sent several artists a basic notebook such as the ones used in the public schools throughout Israel, and asked us to create works that reflected our responses to the material. At times I find patterns and colors having the power to reach beyond the impact you gain with languages and written words. The images in this notebook take their initial lead from stamped patterns. I used discarded woodblocks that were used in fabric patterning as my initial pattern and hand stamped one image on each page with a different color in a gestural way. This resulted in a total of 40 stamped patterns in 40 colors. After this step, I began to retouch the loose motif markings with pen drawing morphing them in an intuitive manner. Irregular and distinct as well as repetitive and similar, these puzzling routes and shapes resembled mental maps with topographical qualities. As the last step of the process, I covered the notebook with a piece of hand-knitting to break away from its identity as a school-bound object and to enhance the pattern in the content with a different texture. In the end, every page of this once ordinary 'plain' notebook guided me to experiment with an abstract mini diorama of organically flourished images, invoking feelings of connectedness and grounding.