"In 1969 Borofsky started writing numbers in sequence, starting with 1 and covering both sides of his sheets; he has continued this sequence at intervals ever since. In the early 1970s he found little drawings and scribbles intruding into the count and he began to make paintings of these images. He decided to identify them and all his subsequent works with the number he was on in his counting - hence the title of this portfolio is ‘2740475’. It contains seven screenprints and six etchings placed alternately (starting and finishing with a screenprint), thus creating a counterpoint of imagery from the flat silhouette of a figure wearing a hat and carrying a briefcase to the tiny etching plates on which a variety of images are drawn... Borofsky is interested in the art of the mentally ill and of prisoners and frequently uses graphic conventions characteristic of such work, including opening up or adding to the crown of the head to denote the mental anguish within. [This] etching is a repeated image of a head in a soft conical hat and with shoulders draped, related to a drawing made on the back of an envelope in about 1978–80 (see Jonathon Borofsky Drawings 1960–83, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Basel, June–July 1983, no. 131)." (Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London: 1986).