While perusing some free advertising papers, preoccupied by TV news images of redacted government documents, and the graphic masking of facial features as seen in the Anonymous Donors series,  I began painting out sections of pages which explicitly referred to commerce. This included mathematical symbols and words such as “sale,” “discount,” and “bargain.” Moreover, in certain works the commodities themselves are camouflaged or hidden completely by ink and paint. 

Having disguised the advertising information and altered the function of these pages from commercial to aesthetic, the underlying design elements begin to play a more active formal role in the picture.