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Walking piece 2010

33 Days West

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33 Days West
London, UK

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

data visualization

Collection · 11 items

drawing

Collection · 96 items
Sub-collection

solo walk

Sub-collection · 25 items

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

data visualization

Collection · 11 items

drawing

Collection · 96 items
Sub-collection

solo walk

Sub-collection · 25 items
33 Days West is a series of photocopies from Foster Spragge’s original walking drawings. Each vertical strip represents a day’s walk, marking compass positions every 30 minutes, while the originals were mailed in nine envelopes from different stages of the walk.

33 Days West is part of Foster Spragge’s walking-drawing series, created by marking each step during a walk. Each drawing reflects the rhythm of the walk and evolves into the next, capturing movement, observation, and spontaneous exploration.

This is a series of photocopies of the original drawing, stuck together. Each vertical strip represents one day’s walk, and at 30-minute intervals the compass position west was drawn. The original remains in nine envelopes, which were posted back from different stages of the walk.

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Information available on Foster Spragge’s website.

APA style reference

Spragge, F. (2010). 33 Days West. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/33-days-west/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

Added by Lucy Frears
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