An essay by painter and writer Dmitry Samarov about the influence of place on an artist's work.

Samarov writes: "If you're a painter who's primarily inspired by your physical surroundings, it takes some time for a new place to soak into your consciousness in that way that's required to make pictures. Meanwhile, everywhere I turn here, there's a new thing to look at and tuck away for use later… My presence is starting to creep in as well: the back room has my bookshelf and flatfile and a bunch of old paintings on the walls… I'm beginning to belong."