Exploring themes of transformation and death, these pieces are executed on a small scale intended to create an intimate relationship between the work and the viewer.

The drawings are expressed in a format uncharacteristic of "finished art" and must be actively explored rather than passively viewed. In this way the sketchbooks become art objects in themselves, as opposed to being preliminary version of a later work.

Narrative content is orientated around the body and its various metamorphoses. The books themselves are revealed to be fragile, the paper translucent as skin and at times compromised by the intervention of cut-outs.

Seven Moleskin sketchbooks of varying sizes:

1. 89mm. Post - Mortem. Notepad format with elastic band.

'Post-mortem' presents detailed drawings in intimate oblong format and cut, framing pages in which the human figure and growing foliage metamorphosise into one another suggesting the dead body slowly becoming one with nature.

2. 104mm. Childhood.

3. 104mm. Puberty.

4. 140mm. Autopsy.

5. 140mm. Forensics

6. 210mm. Necrophagus. Held closed with elastic band.

'Necrophagus' presents the actual decaying of the book’s material as a found object. The pages are stained, wrinkled, and eaten away by liquid, soil, and insect agents; these indexical traces embody the history of the book as a skin and organs that have experienced such attack, ageing, and decay. Onto the distressed pages Sawyer has drawn minute pen images of the larvae (maggot), pupae, and adult of the probably fly that co-authored this book.