Day 49

'Still Life' Pen on Paper

It's getting to the end of my weeks break in Austria and it has me thinking about something that follows on from what I spoke about earlier in the week, that being space, in this case though it's what we do when we leave a space.

Whenever it becomes time to leave a space we go through a similar ritual to when we first entered it, only in reverse order. We slowly recoup the items of clothing, the bits and pieces that were previously scattered across the room marking our territory, we re-visit the areas that we have designated to ourselves and begin to remove any traces of having inhabited that area before finally giving the area a once over to ensure we have all that is important to us. Inevitably though there tend to be a few casualties along the way as we forget some of the seemingly insignificant items in our haste to clear up and get out. The items then left for the next occupants to discover and possibly take ownership of so I suppose you could look at the whole thing as being cyclical. We enter a space, we take ownership of the space, we leave our mark on the space, we leave the space as well as small traces of our existence there, a new person enters the space claims it in their name along with all that was left behind previously and the whole process starts again. There are actually a lot of parallels with what I'm doing within the blog, in a way this is my attempt at inhabiting a specific type of space, my possessions are the drawings and the ideas as I attempt to 'cleverly negotiate' that space by flooding it with those ideas. It is interesting then to consider the repercussions of the project ending when it comes time to essentially leave this place will there be someone else to inhabit it, what is the legacy that I expect to leave behind, will someone else find the traces of the idea and decide to take ownership for themselves possibly continuing the project?