Re- Written

One of the most difficult decisions we make as artists is knowing when enough is enough or what would have happened if...? Recently I "finished" "Written" and blogged about it here. I'm working on another boat book and wanted to try out some images and revisited my earlier book to make the changes. Now that I've completely redone the original, I'm still not sure which works better. I think they both work but in different ways. One, the more spare economical mark maker and the other more worked and forceful. I had scanned the original for editioning if necessary so still have that copy as well.
I'll pop up a few more images and would be very interested in hearing your views. To revisit or leave alone??

And a few more....

So what do you think? The exercise was worthwhile because it freed me up to take more risks and make new discoveries. My new book is related but nothing like this,  I've used a lot of wax and bitumen this time to make the paper seriously waterproof.

written - a little book of boats

book cover

written

it was written

and found wanting

ships of wonder

that gave

something

a dread

in spite of

the hope

and promise

you were torn apart

A sample from "Written" , a collection of 10 small, exploratory drawings I made around the idea of boats and migration.

The quality of the scanned pages was excellent so that the archival inkjet pages allowed me to make a small edition.