In Europe during the late 19th century, artists and writers would often carry pocket-sized journals bound in oilskin or leather. Resurrected by design company Modo & Modo in 1997 under the trademarked name ‘Moleskine’ (inspired by Bruce Chatwin’s 1987 book The Songlines), the scale and flatness of the Moleskine’s design are now synonymous with creativity and experimentation.

With 60 pages of drawings and notes, Christian Dimick’s Pictures is a document of process, printed to mimic one of the many Moleskine notebooks found in his studio. The book situates Dimick’s practice within the peculiar urgency that his paintings invoke—hurried strokes in varied directions, hashed out in pencil or smudged into the surface of the canvas—highlighting his intrigue with formal experimentation and mark-making.

Through the intimacy of the form and the vague translucency of each page, Pictures feels like a suite of unique editions given to the reader, a small talisman of artistic inspiration that captures the vitality of Dimick’s practice.