Never before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world’s most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic´’s daring and utterly original body of work.

An artist’s notebooks are arguably the most authentic means of understanding her process, techniques, and impulses. And, for a performance artist, a rare, permanent record of how she develops her craft. Compiled over the course of four decades on stationery from various hotels, and other temporary residences, this collection of Marina Abramovic´’s original drawings, collages, poetry, writings, cut-outs, photographs and doodles offers glimpses of a brilliant mind in constant motion.

Beautifully produced and packaged, it takes readers on a journey through Abramovic´’s thoughts—and traces the evolution of the most fruitful phase of her career. “I believe we humans need to keep moving forward, and my own life was purely nomadic,” Abramovic´ writes of her travel diaries. “My home was everywhere I went because my home was my own body.”

With the archival material elegantly reproduced in their original size on high-quality paper, this collection offers Abramovic´’s enormous fanbase unprecedented access to her creative process.