Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.