A middle aged man with steel rimmed glasses stands facing away from me in the far corner, clattering the photocopier lid repeatedly, his repetitive action encouraging the hulking grey machine to cast an ominous green light across his blue Marks and Spencer's shirt at regular intervals. The young girl behind me is playing her music through headphones at the special volume normally reserved for members of Spinal Tap and ignorant train passengers. I am half expecting a gang of youths to enter shortly with a spar bag full of Carling and one of those battery powered portable ipod speakers, then we can all enjoy the party.

The trouble with research is that it can sometimes feel like the library shelves are deliberately angled foward so that you always end up with more books piled around you than you had anticipated, or indeed hoped for. I am working on two pieces of writing; my methodology and a close reading of John's article, Rapid Response. I am currently working my way through a piece of writing by Mike Pearson in which he recounts a journey through Wales with William Yang,

"I would introduce William to Places rather than people, places that he would never have expected to visit, marginal places, scruffy places. Away from the coasts and castles and coalfield heritage sites of the tourist itinerary, away from the manicured monuments and prescribed viewpoints, I wanted to take him to a series of locations in Wales such as Mynydd Epynt, ten in all: places that resist immediate scrutiny; places where it is impossible to read from the scenery the momentous events that have happened there" Mike Pearson, 'You can't tell by looking...'

As I look for a methodology for the documentation of the Persians I can't help feeling that less might be more. In the work with Yang all they have are the photographs of their journey. This, for them, is enough. I take from this that I don't need to try and capture everything. Possibly just somethings, and not neccesarily the things that others might antcipate.