Sketchbooks are the bravest of works for it has no set boundaries. You can go where you will with them, They are the start in any idea and the end of many. The findings and discoveries on paper pages are immeasurable. A place of freedom, for ideas to grow and be. Pages where nothing matters, no set intentions for anyone else, but as a completed book, an object, a collection of ideas- these findings and discoveries are immeasurable.

When film maker Pedro Costa began making his film “ Casa de Lava’ in 1994. He found the complexities of the creative process mysterious. To keep a record of this time, Pedro Costa gathered various things in a scrapbook: Images, newspaper cuttings, little stories, drawings with various instructions. It was meant to be a technical notebook, known only to the crew of the film. However, over time it started to become an autonomous object in itself.

In collaboration with images by photographer Sam Rock Inspired by the book, taking notes from my own way of recording and reinterpreting works. I created sketchbook to work along side Rock’s editorial commission for The Plant Magazine issue 12. Reworking with inked edges, powder paint and layered collage techniques.

The ideas here exists independently and are not controlled by outside forces or limitations. They exist as a playful reinterpretation of another creative process, recording and re-working.

Casa de Lava By Pedro Costa is published by Pierre Von Kleist editions.