A dense grid of hand-drawn X's and O's fills the composition in black ink on a white ground, creating an all-over pattern that reads as both playful and meditative. The informal, slightly irregular letterforms suggest the repetitive gesture of marking, while the alternating characters evoke the tic-tac-toe game or the universal symbols for hugs and kisses rendered raw and unpolished. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.