"The site for this drawing project is a classic 15th Century landscape as interpreted by the Japanese artist Sesshu (1420-1506), in the 'Great Screen' from the Freer Collection which is described by Ernest Fenollosa in his 'Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art'. Overlaid on the Sesshu landscape is a modern interpretation of the same landscape, structured by the geometry of the original Great Screen.

The large drawing pushes orthographic projection and 'conventional' drafting to an extreme limit. Within the flat 'space' of the drawing, a 'city plan' is developed from a factitious logic of appositional projections - presenting an apparently straightforward (although ambiguous), yet ironically reasonable 'order'."--artist statement for Mendacity (The City of Lies), 1983-1984