Think.

Continuing on the very general theme of 'place' I have been also been thinking about photos;

Photos as a thing that may be a 'profound visual limitation', and I am not saying it is, but I am just thinking about playing around with a few ideas about this for drawing or (even applying it to making) and getting started.

Photos have edges; boundaries!  Limiting that sense of memory or feeling....

We seem to remember limits to our tales, the middle, no beginning or end, blurs, 'club scene'? 

So thinking about drawing with no edges, long rolls of paper, continuous lines, and stains, to think about creating a sense of place and memory, there will be no edges (so there is no limitation) and things will not being temporary (stained). This could also be applied to the idea of change, time, continuation of change and journeys...

To create place is.. to think about the environment your in, so maybe create drawings about the feeling of that place, busy drawings, quiet drawings; if I am in Hotspur, are my drawings crumbly, bit empty, mis-matched? Damp, dark?...

To think about non-space, or dead spaces, what is a non drawing, or and empty drawing- minimal marks?...

To think about old and new, what about drawing with hand, and mechanically? Like making tools that make multiple marks like a machine. 

I want to really think about that feeling, and intangible nature of place and connect to manchester, or my sense of place... I think this could be the beginning to some drawing and making/experimenting...