The Quandary of Painting is a visual book which presents the flood of ideas I had after the conceptualisation of my practice towards the end of the '90s, exploring how I approached my central concern, painting. My work became more research-based and explored how context shapes meaning.

Created at a time when my ideas about art were in flux, no-thing, not being, and nothingness were ideas around identity, value and relevance I needed to explore, to make art nothing so that I could rebuild my ideas about what was or was not art, this included ideas about myself as an artist.

I realised that anything could be art, including found objects and my identity. I embraced the idea of the expanded field and a multidisciplinary approach to making art. I had to test the boundaries. Made up of photos, drawings, paintings and notes, this work opened the door to all my subsequent work, thoughts and projects.