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Whether on reclaimed ledger paper or vintage picture postcards, the images he constructs are something like found details themselves — singular and mysterious, if occasionally a little on the nose.

In the early 1970s, his friend the photographer Edward Grazda received a piece of mail from Frank written on a scrap of ledger paper.

Having developed a deeply meditative, highly controlled approach to drawing, Despont uses compasses and other drafting tools to render wildly intricate motifs on antique ledger paper.

In a smaller gallery, multimedia drawings on Indian ledger paper found in Varanasi illuminate her transition.

The drawings were made by Cheyenne Indians around 1870 in colored pencil on ledger paper brought into the area by white businessmen to keep track of financial transactions.