Conversations, Books and Walking…

22/01/2009 by James.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about dialogue. About dialogue between people, and between people and places.
I want to keep exploring the notion of fluidity of identity, and of interconnection between ourselves and the material world of which we are a part, and how that can be documented.

Yesterday I returned to making a book, something I haven’t done for a while… as a focus for my thoughts, feelings and observations while I am out walking and experiencing the area in which I live. I’ve often found people’s notebooks or sketchbooks to be the most evocative and powerful part of their practice for me.

I took the book to the forest and wrote simply what I felt and saw, what I was being told or shown by the forest as I interacted with it.

Here’s a couple of pictures…

I like the way that the contents of the book aren’t too precious, are a stream of consciousness type of writing, and that what I see, hear, feel, as I move along dictates what goes into the book.

I’m looking into other ways of allowing the place, the weather and other ‘beings’ to add to and change the pages too, having buried books before… I love the idea of slugs eating through illustrations, or fungi growing across watercolour paper…

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