I spent a lot of hours in the studio and managed to make really good progress. I had glued all the heads to these pages from the index of an old atlas, so I cut those out with about an eighth inch border, so you see just a small amount of the page.

Then I made my final layout of the heads, moving them around until I got them where I wanted them to be, and I glued them down, weighting each head so it would dry flat. That never works entirely as intended, but overall it’s pretty flat.

Then I had some coffee.

After all the heads were dry, I taped down some pieces of tracing paper so I could make some patterns. I want ribbons of words going from the mouth of one man to the ear of the next man, Then, where they are facing, the ribbons go from mouth to mouth and where they have their backs to each other, the ribbons go from ear to ear.

It’ll make sense eventually, trust me. I used another atlas page to cut out the ribbons from the patterns I had made.

Then I had some more coffee.