By the late 1970's I found myself working in a printshop in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Among all the business forms, flyers, labels, and letterheads were some unusual-looking orders with rather mysterious messages.

What first caught my eye was, not surprisingly, the bold, crude method of the artwork. Accustomed to standard paste-up techniques or at least the idea of making copies from a copy, the scotch-taped, stapled and glued materials I was getting made the jobs a tactile as well as visual experience. Many was the time the art was produced on the spot at the shops front desk, using our scissors, glue-sticks, and ball point pens.

These jobs intrigued me as an artist because of my interest in the punk graphic style of the time and in the so-called "naive" artists coming into vogue in fine art circles (Howard Finster, R.L. Miller, Ned Cartledge, etc.).