First Friday Walk

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Tamsin Grainger

Living while walking, giving Shiatsu, writing & making art (United Kingdom)

1 November 2024 a Walking the Land artist collective monthly event. This Friday’s brief was by Janette Kerr and me, Tamsin Grainger and part of the Lines of Enquiry, a collective walking art project which will culminate in a group exhibition in 2025.

Here are the What3Words locations for the 6 stops we made along part of the Edinburgh Cycle Path network, connecting in spirit with others who were walking along the Honeybourne Line (Gloucestershire) and elsewhere.

///Causes.Host.Home
///Perky.Fetch.Useful
///Notice.Case.Bugs
///Linked.Tides.Eager
///Bounty.Belong.Only
///Maker.Exit.Corn
///Friday.Notice.Retail

Damp earth causes stains
Tree hosts magpies and sparrows
Home is far away.

Wet bottoms as we drew the sounds around us with our eyes closed

Perky dog's tail wags
'Fetch' calls his human with joy
Useful happinness.

Part of the No Birds Land sound walk installation

Under the Bridge. Edinburgh cycle paths. Photo Janette Kerr

Notice how cold stone
Is, in case of chills and piles 
Bugs me every time.

Where the 5-ways meet on the Edinburgh Cycle Path

Log sitting linked to
Ruth, tides away from here, though
Eager to connect.

Not Log Letters but Log Drawings (of the soundscape)

Pigeon poo bounty
Belongs here under the bridge 
Who to? Only coo!

Despite the metal mesh, the pigeons roost in the roof of the old railway tunnel where Janette draws

Maker mark on pipes
No exit for the sewage 
Rose and corn coloured.

Strange, but serious pipes on the hillside

First Friday walking
Notice the noise of the drill 
Retail shop going up.

Final stop: drawing together, opposite each other at the end of the Leith Path near the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Some of the drawings made during the First Friday Walk (November 2024 by Janette and Tamsin)

Notes

On the ‘Log sitting …’ haiku: ‘Ruth’ refers to Ruth Broadbent and our project Conversations from a Log

APA style reference

Grainger, T. (2024). First Friday Walk. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/2024/11/01/first-friday-walk/

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