“FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU ARE ANGRY YOU LOSE 60 SECONDS OF HAPPINESS”

Made by Julian German, who happened to meet an old man named Charles Albert Lucien Snelling after spotting his unique coloured house with plants for sale outside. I can perceive this book as being made with the intention of entertaining and enlightening people.

This specific book is a hardcover made of a unique canvas material, with prints of white, yellow, green and blue flowers around it. The cover also includes a silkscreened title box with the book name and authors name. Its slightly bigger/more square than A4 size in a portrait layout, and doesn’t include page numbers but I can estimate there to be around 30. I find the title is clearly literal but is an attempt to be an intriguing way of putting a phrase to make it more rememberable- while also foreshadowing how the contents are meant to be pleasant and enjoyable to consume.

The story is based around an old widower who has a passion for flowers, but can gauge that the creator chose to write on him after being intrigued by his simplistic life and general happiness and content with this life. This is shown as Julian takes a look into his simple life, including lots of shots of the man himself, along with shots of his old house, and lots of shots of his flowers/flower themed décor. Julian has for the most part stuck to one image per page, bar images of the man’s personal photo books featured on the first and last few pages. Julian has left many a page blank, and photos with minimal editing; which i perceive as a an attempt to focus the viewers attention on the striking simplicity of the images and overall the life of the man he is portraying.