installation
Highlights
Missa
MISSA presents 100 pairs of army boots suspended within a sparse grid. The work creates an unsettling silence, inviting viewers to reflect on war’s invisible consequences, the tension between absence and presence, and the quiet mechanisms of obedience and loss.
Walking to Save Some Sea – My 46000 Challenge
Walking to Save Some Sea documents Fran Crowe’s year-long response to ocean plastic pollution. Between 2006–07 she walked 200km of coastline, collecting 46,000 pieces of litter - one square mile’s worth—turning personal action into a call for collective responsibility.
Please, walk on here (Kono-ue wo Aruite Kudasai)
In 1955, Shimamoto’s Please Walk on Here used stable and unstable boards to make participants physically experience risk and instability. Recreated for the 1993 Venice Biennale, it highlighted bodily engagement and precarious perception.
Ashiato (Footprints)
Footprints by Akira Kanayama is a walkable artwork of stenciled shoe prints on vinyl. Spectators walk on or alongside it, creating a “double walker” effect that links bodies, traces, and space, blending physical movement with imaginative engagement.
Hill Walker
Hill Walker is a video‑sculptural work by Tracy Hanna: a small-scale plaster “mountain” serves as a screen for a looping video of a climber, blending installation and video with an existential reflection on human striving, scale, and the absurdity of repetition.
The Gates
An installation in Central Park consisting on 7,503 gates with 4.87 meters (16 feet) hight and variable widths, each one holding a saffron colored fabric from the top part of the frame. The gates were installed alongside 37 kilometers (23 miles) of walkways where people were invited to walk by.
Walking pieces
Wrapped Walk Ways
Wrapped Walk Ways, in Jacob Loose Memorial Park, Kansas City, Missouri, consisted of the installation of 12,540 square meters (135,000 square feet) of saffron-colored nylon fabric covering 4.4 kilometers (2.7 miles) of formal garden walkways and jogging paths.
Walk on Fleinvaer
An installation of drawings 5 graphite pencil on curved handmade paper on the rock on the floor, 70x10cm 3 large graphite drawing, 113 x ± 300cm, 80 x150cm and 100x65cm 7 color drawings, 8x10,5cm, 6 graphite drawings, 21x14,8cm 2 drawings 32x24cm
Articles on WLC
Articles elsewhere
Ten years walking and asking questions
For the past 10 years I have been hosting walks creatively exploring hidden, obscured and often uncomfortable histories, legacies of slave-ownership and colonialism. In July our book: Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Empire and Slave-Ownership in Bath and Bristol’s Memoryscapes was published by Liverpool University Press. Here I set out some background to the book, and my approach to walking arts through a sketch of a recent Heritage Open Days walk at Bath Spa Unive [...]
