Every since I was a child I was drawn to paper, and not just any piece of paper, one that had text and image on it. I remember myself during my pre-school years collecting my parents’ brochures and bank deposit forms. I loved their chrome shine, the elegant orderly letters and the images neatly set next to each other.

Throughout my life I developed this love into my creative practice, experimenting with this mix of text and image in different mediums – either during my academic studies by combining in my written dissertation drawings, maps, and photos, or later while creating life stories, exploring layout of text and photos and cover design. When I began writing novels in 2008, I was interested not just in the narrative but also in the entire book – its layout and cover. It was then that I decided to become a self-published author so I could keep these aspects of the book in my own creative domain. In recent years I started adding my own illustrations to the stories and am currently experimenting with a photographed comics project that would be printed on shiny chrome paper.

What I mean is that there is something about books, this mixture they hold many times of image and text that captures my imagination. They seem to me like magic boxes that have a mechanism that can teleport you to other places and time, change your state of mind entirely, offer you deep insight and meaning about your life, and inspire you to greatness you did not know you are capable of. Beyond that, I love their intricate beauty, mixing letters, shapes, colors, and the experience of leafing through them, one page at a time.

I aspire to create books that hold in them an experience of mystery, insight and beauty. Books that are a work of art, a magic box, a gift.