MARGARET HUBER  
​I used to live in Minneapolis but now live in London.

VISUAL DIARIES   Some pages in my diary are a real mess. Still occasionally, a door seems to open, and something steps through, an idea or observation that sums up my day or a starting point for future work. I enjoy the methodical approach to diary keeping; being able to turn the page to start again opens up the potential for new thinking.

​TRAIN TICKETS   'Day Return to Brighton' was a diary project on train tickets from my daily commute from London to Brighton. When I started the series many years ago, I set a few ground rules to help me remember what was important in the work. I limited the drawing materials to pencil, pen (black and blue ink only) and Tipp-Ex (white correction fluid), which kept the project portable. I never threw tickets away: if I made a mistake, I kept working on it until I was left with something I liked or could use, which might mean ending up with a virtually black ticket if things went badly wrong. For the most part, I tried to work with the mistakes, remembering that I was allowed some less-than-wonderful tickets over the long haul. Also, every ticket in the series had to be mine; only those used for my commute to Brighton. This reinforced my initial objective: to find a positive way to acknowledge the time and money invested in commuting. Each ticket represented one day of my working life.

CROCHET  I'm not that good at crochet, finding it difficult to count stitches or do any meaningful planning (my mind wanders).  I enjoy working with yarn; making something out of nothing is good fun.  Combining it with objects and bits of found material is an added bonus.
  
UNCLE PONY  These images and objects are from Uncle Pony's varied collections.