Amongst the many books I have made are several documenting contemporary dance performances. Bangarra remembered follows the same method of approach as the others. I have taken a very small book into a performance with a black pen. I have calculated the number of pages in the book and found the length of the performance and tried to work out how long I have to spend on a page to complete the book. The answer is usually a somewhat terrifying 30 seconds. Added to this is the fact I work in the dark and cannot see the page I am drawing on. The images are done at high speed and with little thought really, as I try to make my main focus the enjoyment of the performance.   It is an exhausting couple of hours. I see the drawings for the first time when I get home. Somehow the immediacy of the event embeds itself into the images. The drawings are minimal and direct. I feel if I could see the drawings during the process they would lose something. Later in the studio I work on them with acrylic paint and watercolour, building up layers of colour. This performance by the contemporary dance company Bangarra focuses on the land. The specific land the dance was based on was Lake Eyre, a place I have visited a couple of times. I was told years ago that when you are creating an artwork it is a battle between you and the artwork, and with luck, the artwork will win. This book has had a life of its own. It started with the spontaneous drawings from the dance performance and was allowed to become a record of my memory of it.