Foreword, by Barbara Nessim: The following pages are a faithful reproduction of my 1963 sketchbook, finished in December 1986. I have completed almost 100 books to date, and they are instrumental to my creative process. My sketchbooks serve as an archive of imagery and ideas that inform my entire body of artwork. There are just 3 rules for these books: 1) must have beginning and end pages with dates 2) must work page after page 3) no page is torn out