The Documenter is in the room, she is present as the groups are working on their pieces but she is not directly part of any of them. She wonders what it means that she is in this role of observer? She finds herself sitting behind a desk – hiding behind her computer for a moment, when really what she wants to do is to make herself visible – to become integrated/integral to the making through her processes of documentation.
As a way of coping with the situation she finds herself in she attempts to work with it. But how? She recognises her point of view, that she has a particular point of view and she works from there. It’s what she sees, what she hears, what she thinks that will invariably become the document. She knows the pitfalls of attempting to work from objectivity and instead she wants the document to become something (an artwork?) in its own right – a spring-board, a space to work from, a space to work with.
