In 2012, we opened “The Yearbooks”, an exhibition featuring a selection of notebooks, or “yearbooks”, made by José Antonio Suárez Londoño for his ongoing project in which he creates a daily drawing based on a book or series of books that he reads over the course of a year. The artist, a self-proclaimed drawing addict who sketches endlessly in notebooks or whatever scrap paper is accessible, had produced, at the time of the exhibit, sixty-five yearbooks containing over five thousand drawings from different sources such as Franz Kafka’s diary, Ovid’s Metamorphosis and Patti Smith’s poetry. Based in Colombia, Suárez Londoño emerged in the 1970s as one of the most important figures in printmaking and drawing from Latin America. For him, creativity is inherently responsive, an idea that his yearbooks embody in their sequential physical form. Each notebook drawing is numbered and dated, and is accompanied by its respective source text. Suárez Londoño’s project evidences a structural intimac...