ABSTRACT
From lists of things remembered, or things around us, and describing ‘the thing’
itself, we, as artists, are also able to capture the place itself. Being able to write a
vignette – a word-sketch – about a particular place, an interior or exterior scene,
is as satisfying as capturing that scene with paintbrush or camera. Our powers of
observation will still need to be finely tuned, and it is sometimes the specific detail
that is captured, but sometimes it is the mood or atmosphere of a place that is
recalled and described.
