Any drawn place is both a here and an elsewhere. There is nothing else like these places; they are to be found only in drawings. (Painting is different again because painting is about absence.) Each drawn place has all the particularity and local knowledge of a here, and, at the same time, the promise of an elsewhere – for what it shows could be different, the moments of choice have been kept visible. Here embodies necessity; elsewhere offers freedom. The human condition begins when the two are face to face. And only drawing can describe how this happens in space and thus how they fit together – necessity and freedom to house the human condition.

John Berger, On Drawing p.143