I have been working on a collection of writing separate to my visual art practice for a number of years. The writing is a mixture of poetry and stream of consciousness, exploring the emotion attached to the day to day minutia, the natural world, memory, uprootedness and moving through space. Over the past year, I have been investigating how to bring these separate practices together and have been doing so by incorporating hand written methods alongside sculptural pieces. I would like to further explore the cross over between these ways of working, and utilise the equipment available to produce a small batch of handbound poetry booklets. These will accompany larger scale paintings which will use screen printing techniques to apply text to canvas based works.