Abstract
Shortly after the death on 9 February 1999 of Chicago-based performance and multi-media artist Lawrence Steger, I inherited his writing files, and in the years since, I have been engaged in this project with the intention of collecting his texts, and adding my voice to them in essayistic dialogue. Each of the nine chapters assembles itself around a single work of Lawrence's, or an image, motif or strategy that repeats in more than one of his works. MG