Since almost a decade now I have been binding blank pages to make individually designed journals and notebooks. Since 2008 I have been working fully dedicated with books and have been making book art since then.
In early summer 2009 I wrote my first book about bookbinding - Six Ways to Make Coptic Headbands - which includes 5 new headbands for Coptic bound books.

About my Works

There are individual experiences that inspire me to make a specific work, or to formulate a certain thought. Beside these singular events there are two topics that keep moving me, and keep driving me to making books. One of these is the thinking about conventional books and reading them. By playing around with known mechanisms I try to investigate with my books, and thus with my readers, how the reception of books works: Some of my books have holes, others have translucent pages or inaccessible content. With my Smiley Oracle for example, I am questioning the absoluteness of the content of a book. For each reader the content can change. Not only by means of different interpretation what is written there, but because they are reading something genuinely different.

My other big topic is threedimensionality. A book is a three- even fourdimensional object (reading takes time). Normally we forget that, and only think of the one flat book page when thinking of books.

The aim of my work is to surprise the reader or viewer in such a way that he or she rethinks their own attitute and reception of books.

You can find more information about me in my CV, and you can have a look at some of my works in the gallery.

Juried and invitational exhibitions and events I have participated in

Public Collections that contain my books