I’ve come to a standstill. Occasionally happens for the most trivial of reasons. This time I cannot seem to decide whether the text should be in Finnish or in English. Maybe for this particular reason I very rarely have text in my books and prefer to tell the story using other visual means. But there are many peculiarities with this book. I’m doing my first round book and realise now the vision I originally had of the finished piece requires me to abandon many things I’ve been taught. For example about the opening qualities of a binding. Obviously a (normal) book needs to open easily and well to facilitate reading. Sculptural books can be different… And this one must not open well. It does require all my technical and structural knowledge about making books in order to discard it to achieve something that differs this time. And then there’s the language issue to solve… I’ll get there, eventually. (Apr09)