Where is here? Massey (2008) in her book ‘Space’ suggests that it can be hard to know where we are when everything is moving. We move in a moving world. We discover where we are through an ongoing process of negotiating boundaries (given and constructed in relation) that continue to define and redefine the space we inhabit.
How might drawing investigate these processes? Making marks as my feet touch the ground offers an opportunity to notice surface boundaries of pavement and paper, and cognitive boundaries as I notice how I am employing my attention. In these ways I am exploring drawing as a process for experiencing and articulating how and what I continue to notice.
This work is in its early stages, I am experimenting with marking in different contexts – here I am marking a familiar walked journey. The images shown are marks made while walking to college each day. I am interested in how I negotiate the physical and cognitive boundaries that present themselves as I walk and draw – and how my experiences emerge into marks. I see gestural marks as as being able to convey the embodied and temporal nature of these explorations.
