A Wander is not a Slog 
54 walks from Qualmann and Hind's Ways to Wander
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A Wander is not a Slog 2019-02-18 06:57:23
I have been delaying this blog post. It signals an end. A reflective punctuation mark on a year-long walk. Moments, pulled from a total experience made significant in their reflection. I have explored fifty-three ways to wander, but haven’t exhausted them yet. A year made meaningful by the generosity of others: their ideas, footsteps and […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2019-01-06 07:41:52
Three hours before low tide… (Low Tide) Three hours before high tide. This last year could easily have been a slog. A long haul of walking lonely as a cloud. Instead it was a ‘simultaneity of stories-so-far’. A year of walking with friends and family, strangers, colleagues, artists and collaborators. Old-friends at a distance when we […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2019-01-03 05:34:03
Walk 51. A Certain History by Linda Rae Dornan. Counting the periphery of The Racecourse for my first walk in #Northampton. 8:32 – 8:35am: 13 gardens, 5 shrubs, 2 visible ornaments. 8:35am: approx. 238 trees 0 visible insects. 8:56am: a pavement that was 4X298. 9:13am: Left foot by leaves, right foot by twigs. 9:24am: passed […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-12-30 09:10:31
Unpacking in the surprising prairie wind and staying for a hundred years. Enthralled by phasmagoria and the detritus of history. The years slowly crumble through lack of maintenance. A colonial past that still haunts; its uses change and decline. Every moment captured for Insta posterity. Is the market management meeting still in progress? Corporate beancounters […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-12-23 11:09:35
Cheap yellow balls. Or were they lime green? Dropping, bouncing, stopping. Rolling across varied surfaces in multiple cities. Helpful people unwittingly disrupting artistic documentation, but making up for it through increasingly meaningful encounters. For some the tennis ball facilitated a strange availability. For others, a continued exploration of a studied area. For me, a continued goodbye… […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-11-12 10:36:22
I absorb Marclay over time. Dipping in and out of his Clock as opportunities arise. How long did Maya and I queue in New York? Massing hours in pursuit of time’s totality. Whereas artists such as Douglas Gordon famously explored duration through the slowing down of cinematic flow almost to the point of stillness, Marclay […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-11-09 07:56:21
A walk between two people in four parts over the course of one day. A combination of the texts and photographs of Blake Morris and Andrew Howe. A walk authored together. i.) performance Chimney Obscures Plane DSB – Waiting Turns A dog down by the river bank scrabbles in fallen leaves Leaving a deposit for […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-10-24 13:55:39
Stones have a long memory. Our last meeting unexpected, history links us as we walk the quiet predawn streets of London. We are transported. Together we speak of stones. Rainy Day Women drifting over the Brooklyn Bridge. A Full English. Memorials. Buildings. Bridges. Death dates. A faint hum of suicide. Twelve types of British stone. If these stones could […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-10-20 16:48:50
A transitional moment. Brooklyn ‘misty and gray, with one tree out of a hundred to show fall colors.’ London cold and rainy, the summer’s heat wave a distant memory. A heath in London, a hill in Brooklyn. The mountain will not come to me. Or perhaps it’s just ‘moving at mountain speed’. Molly Mullen Brett […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-10-09 17:32:37
To begin with I didn’t know how to walk. I was able to learn to balance. Able to navigate the world on two feet. To engage in a series of tiny falls. The consequences of misjudged falls change. They grow with us. London is designed for a particular type of body. A body able to […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-10-05 07:55:52
Meeting for the first time on a long walk strangers quickly become friends. Red: the colour of infrastructure. Investigating how beauty moves. Invisible oppositions: bird watchers and dog walkers. It depends on what you’re looking for. Silence: wind blowing, bird calls, pavement impact. It depends on what you’re listening for. Invitation: barefoot yoga in the park. […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-09-21 15:52:47
In London, Alisa and I began by walking to The Street. This is not, however, the street of Jane Jacobs, a messy entanglement of urban experience; rather it was the corporate street of Westfields Stratford City, Europe’s largest mall. This simulacrum of the street is a space of global consumption. New York’s Shake Shack pushing […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-09-14 05:04:50
In February I walked in circles around the ArcelorMittal Orbit in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This week I walked there in a straight line, transecting East London on a journey through my usual stomping grounds. I took pictures every five minutes facing north. And every five minutes facing south. To truly engage in transecting, the route will […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-08-23 06:49:02
Last week a worldwide Chip Walk. Canada, England and Greece, all walking together. Radical Stroud embarked on a poetic chip shop hop. They walked on the 199th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, their chips wrapped in Oliver Lomax’s poem commemorating the tragedy. In Bethnal Green rapid gentrification made chippies almost impossible to find. As the […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-08-14 16:56:59
‘One day, while calmly mowing his cloud, the prince of Cloud City was accosted. The arch-rival of his kingdom GooGooGaga, a terrifying creature, half man, half baby, approached from behind. With a mighty shove, the prince was thrown from his cloud and fell down to Earth. Landing in a swimming pool in Fresno, California, he […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-07-27 17:45:26
A walk between old friends (getting older every day). Separated by an ocean; connected by hangovers. Nodding heads at passers-by. ‘Good morning.’ ‘Hello.’ ‘Hello.’ ‘Good morning.’ No tongue clicking, to our mutual relief. Ponds and springs. London and Pittsburgh. Sharing selfies in the best of all possible places. Nick Tobier Jeff Morris Advertisements
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-07-11 06:39:12
In Hampstead Heath Rebekah and I passed lusty bathers soaking in the rare English sun. In San Jose Katie and David joined protesters who filled the streets to proclaim that Families Belong Together. Despite the different contexts, our conversations paralleled: we discussed walking as interdependence, the ethics of making art from your everyday (and the people […]
A Wander is not a Slog 2018-06-30 14:56:33
Rocks were gathered and royally mailed–circulated between myself in London, Jess in Aberystwyth and Julius in East Sussex. Walking is slow. The post slows it even further. They call it snail mail for a reason. ‘Long Shore Drift’ drifted on across an unseasonably warm June; a welcome excuse for a beach excursion (if the littered shore […]
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