The project titled paired is a suite of Iris prints, matted and framed. There are eighteen pairs of prints included, each discrete half of which being an index, in alphabetical order, of every idiomatic locution and slang usage found while researching official reference sources on the indicated subject. The primary gesture couples simple everyday terms such as “one and two” , “black and white” , “ word and picture” , “mark and measure” , and “think and know” . Some of the pairings are antonyms, some synonyms, and some purely subjective matching. Each term is represented by idiomatic expressions. For example, “one” includes “all for one and one for all” , “it takes one to know one” , “one in the hand is worth two in the bush” , “wear more than one hat” , and “words of one syllable”.

What might appear to surface in the reading of this work is a cultural penchant for blending seemingly arbitrary metaphors with heavily determined judgment and prejudice.