I love seeing artist’s notebooks, especially ones like this with notes about how the artist is working out an idea as opposed to just sketches. Below is a journal page by David Wojnarowicz, a controversial artist who died of AIDS in 1992. (If you want to learn more about him and the 1980s East Village NYC art scene he was a part of, check out this book: Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz.)

Read more about the online archive of Wojnarowicz’s journals at David Wojnarowicz’s Journals Make His Private World Very Public.