As it was wet we stayed in the Newtown Community Centre and though at first glance the room did not look very promising for textures to take rubbings from but it in a way it makes you work harder to seek out interesting textures, the images below show some of the textures we found.
The next stage will be to use the rubbings to form a map of the room and I will work on this over the next week or so, but also I hope to plan a day long creative community mapping workshop. This would be open to all and focus on producing a texture map of Newtown produced in a day and covering the whole area, what makes rubbings so good as a starting point is that they something most of us have done at some point and they provide a rich source of material and help in looking at a place in a different way.
