Walking wild spaces constitutes the main part of my contextual artistic practice. It allows a close connection and deep mapping of these places.
I am aware that while walking, I create a pathway, or follow an existing one, reaching back in time to our most primitive selves before our disconnection from the wilderness we emerged from. Path forming using the body to create a line, speaks to the most ancient of human and animal mark making. It is a momentary imprint of human identity and belonging. It speaks of the past, the present and the future: as a path may have existed before, we walk it now, and it may lead somewhere we may not have been before.
As I walk I record the land through photography, which I use to create prints, collages and grids in paper and ceramic which are an attempt at understanding the language of wild spaces.
