Tools of the Trade is so named because its subjects are tools of my trade, which is to say that I’m and architect, and for 50 years or so I have used yellow tracing paper as an integral tool of my practice. I used it in only one way, laid flat, to draw and to trace, the paper roll in my left hand and a Pentel mechanical pencil loaded with HB lead in my right. Sometime in early 2021 I began to see my habitual companion in a different light, as it were, and I began to explore its hitherto unimagined magical and expressive potential. Now almost a year later, I am still finding new ways to use my versatile tool.