This notebook began as an investigation into the spaces we occupy with our bodies, going on to explore memory and family, using old family archives and photographs, from my own childhood and further back, drawing from the images, and developing a technique of cutting through. I then became involved in a site-specific exhibition that took place in Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny in November 2012. The project was sited at No. 15 Hughes, a distinctive building on the main street of the village that had a long and rich history, but has been empty for the last few years. Frank Hughes, then owner of the property, and nephew of the last resident, Peggy Hughes, an artist, decided to allow curators Maria Tanner and Deirdre Southy to invite artists to respond to the house, its history and presence, for a temporary exhibition, titled Idionumina. The remainder of the notebook then became a place for developing ideas for that project using images from the Hughes family archive. Some of these images led directly to the work used in that exhibition, such as the drawing/cut out dated 15/09/12, of the woman with a golf club, which became a very large drawing, cut through to expose the wall behind. I tried to use this notebook as I would any other, as a place to try out ideas, and keep a record of the development of my art practice, although it was hard to completely let go of the awareness that this would be a publicly viewed notebook, and as such is probably neater, and more cohesive than my usual notebooks, and doesn't include any shopping lists.