Pocket drawings – Lundy visitors

I invited visitors to embark on their own walking journey with a pencil and paper tucked into their pockets. As they wandered the island, the movements of their body guided the pencil, creating a set of marks representing their journey.

The drawings create a set of responses to walks where although the mind is attuned to the sensory richness of the environment, the hand moved autonomously, responding to the undulating terrain, the movement of the hip and the rhythm of footsteps. The drawings have captured the shifts in ground, elevation, and atmosphere that characterise each unique path.

The drawings are an attempt to represent the symbiotic relationship between the body’s proprioceptive awareness—the sense of the body’s position and movement in space—and the act of mark-making. Each stroke on the paper is a testament to the intimate connection between the walker and the landscape, an expression of embodied experience distilled onto the page.

“I felt much more aware of my own movements and the steps up and down”

A participant

“ felt much more aware of my own movements particularly steps all up and down”