Notebook

Notebook #1

The notebook carried by the Documenter forms an important part of her work. The notebook might be leatherbound with an elastic strap, it might be an ‘executive pad’ – yellow with blue ruled lines, it might be graph paper – where the smallest squares are 1mm wide or the pages might be cream or square in shape. There might be a picture of a Labrador on the front and a magnet on the back – so it is possible to put it on a fridge. She tries to use the same pen to write in the notebook, to bring some consistency but she rarely manages to do this in practice.

She likes to think of the notebook as a space of intuition, and as such she see it as more than just somewhere to record things. She thinks of the notebook as a space where she can make things, where things can happen. She might make marks, sentances, drawings, diagrams but also she might make change, progress, sense, love. She does not like to mark the notebook flippantly, although sometimes this invariably happens. She likes to ask – what does this space want now? And she gets excited when it suggests to her what to do, when she makes something with the notebook.