I sort of have it in my head, and then I would like to do pictures first. And then I have to come up the text. I’m blessed because I have an editor who understands me, or doesn’t want to make me angry. So she’s very gentle, and then I come up with some text which is necessary to explain what I meant. But I try to keep the text minimal, because in a way, how I speak or express myself is more in the pictures maybe because I came from somewhere else. I always cringe when kids would say, well, you are the writer
I don’t consider myself a writer at all.
And also I’m trying to desperately show to kids that it’s not a big deal what I’m doing. I even had a show in Prague when I purposefully left all the pictures without any mounts so they would see that I mess up, that the sides have dripping colors. The people in the exhibit put steps up so the kids could come and look at it. Because I remember when I was little, I saw some paintings which look absolutely exquisite. I thought, I can never do this. So I would like to get somehow the message over that yes, you can do that, and yes, you can have a good idea even if you are 12. And if you put it on the paper and make some doodles, maybe somebody will look at it.
