Blanks.

Blanks link in to the idea of blank spaces, blank maps and maps link in to my own 'quest for knowledge' as it could be put.

I have started off doing quite a lot of 'blank' drawings.

 I have looked at satellite maps of GM building, and looked at its orientation- as to orientate was to locate east, therefore I have drawn what is east (repeated, distorted) and on further drawings, the colour and orientation on the paper was from the direction of east (well, an attempt anyway).

I started to think about colour being isolated, (a child's view of colour is quite isolated) and so little information being revealed. 

The idea of blanks fits into my interest in the Everyday; blank, minimal MODERNIST work could be seen as quite unsettling, as remarked by Ben Highmore, MODERNISATION IS UNSETTLING. Very true at the moment, as we are moving into the new extremely modern art school, we find new and blank spaces unsettling, but they are awake with possibilites.

Blank spaces; paragraphs start with a blank. So these are notes on the amount of paragraphs/breaks in Georges Perec's Life, A Users Manual. 

Also read a little of Walter Benjamin, where he hinted to the idea of blanks, or not giving everything away, in particular in story telling is most useful,

'INFORMATION LEAVES NOTHING TO THE IMAGINATION, FOR WE HAVE GIVEN IT ALL, AROUSING THOUGHFULNESS, STORY IS ART, A RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES.'