Sketchbooks or Reflective Journals...or something else all together...

Initially my sketchbooks started out as reflective journals and were a space where I could reflect on the work I had created. It quickly became apparent that  these sketchbooks went beyond simple reflections and actually became an integral part of my work. I have always used sketchbooks within all of my work but slowly my sketchbooks have actually become my work. I feel they are spaces where I can be completely honest and document the mundane nature of everyday life. This is a recurrent feature in my work. I am interested in the ordinary becoming extraordinary and looking at everyday life in a different way.

My sketchbooks form the bulk of my work and I fill them in obsessively. I'm not sure whether sketchbooks is the right term for them as they are, in my eyes, completed pieces of work in their own right.