Possible questions

What might some of the questions be that I ask other book artists?…
This is a parking lot post...

When people pick up and read your books, what do you think is happening to them? I’m interested in ideas of immersion here.
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Does the reader have a job to do in constructing the text? ( I mean, is there a dialogue between artist and reader?

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Do you think there is a higher idea of “book” to which all book artists- including yourself- relate?

Do you think this idea is changing? Does it need to be changed? Is it bad if it changes? Should it be resisted?

Do
you think that the advent of digital information technologies and the
much-heralded death of the book affect the status of artists books?

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Do
you think book arts should be thought of as a series of objects or as a
strategy, a form of practice that artists use to create work and
negotiate their cultural concerns? I think that these are two different
ways of looking at things and that there seems to be more thought and
criticism of the objects than of the artists and their strategies.
These approaches are necessarily intertwined...

in terms of conception

in terms of relationship between production and concept

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How
do you address the relationship between the idea and the material?
Would you say that the available means of production dictate what you
can make, or would you say that if you had an idea you'd find a way to
make it?

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Do
you view books as a changing or static thing in relation to your
subject matter/ sources and thought. What I mean is, are they
containers into which your thought can be decanted, or are they more
than that?

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What do you think the relationship between printing and book art is?
    What about digital printing?
    Is the “democratising” principle of the multiple an important issue for you?

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What do you think the relationship between craft and book art is?

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Do you find book art helpful in organising your practice?
    Can you compartmentalize ideas?
    Can you better express complex ideas with a structure/overarching form that aids narrative?
Do books limit you? Is this good/bad/other?
Do books change your voice?
Can you include more than one voice in a book?
Does the idea of a “strategy of containment” mean anything to you in terms of your practice?
Is
a book like a game? Does it exist because of a set of constitutive
rules? And is it therefore easier to temporarily separate from the
world to incorporate ideas elegantly?

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What
is the relationship of books to collage? What I mean, is that simple,
flat collage allows a presentation of disparate materials together on a
page, whereas books (including books of collage) present pages in
relationship but as an array of possibly separate "modules"

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Do
you use any digital tools to produce your books? Could you imagine
using the files you create in another medium rather than artists books?