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2010

33 Days West

Foster Spragge

Foster Spragge

Artist exploring movement through walking (United Kingdom) 
Copyright: Foster Spragge
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33 Days West
London, UK

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

data visualization

Collection · 10 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items
Sub-collection

solo walk

Sub-collection · 21 items

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Walking piece

Pride Square II

Pride Square II is a series of 12 small drawings that attempt to capture the energy and personality of a person walking through a busy public square in Sydney's Inner West suburb of Newtown.

Melinda Hunt•
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Explorer

Rachael Clewlow’s Explorer (2011) visualizes her daily movements through the city using colour-coded tracks. Based on her “‘statistical diaries’,” it transforms walking patterns into abstract forms and colours, mapping mobility as art.

Rachael Clewlow
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Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

William Anastasi
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Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walter De Maria

abstraction

Collection · 17 items

data visualization

Collection · 10 items

drawing

Collection · 76 items
Sub-collection

solo walk

Sub-collection · 21 items

Related

Walking piece

Pride Square II

Pride Square II is a series of 12 small drawings that attempt to capture the energy and personality of a person walking through a busy public square in Sydney's Inner West suburb of Newtown.

Melinda Hunt•
Walking piece

Explorer

Rachael Clewlow’s Explorer (2011) visualizes her daily movements through the city using colour-coded tracks. Based on her “‘statistical diaries’,” it transforms walking patterns into abstract forms and colours, mapping mobility as art.

Rachael Clewlow
Walking piece

Untitled (Pocket Drawings)

William Anastasi’s Pocket Drawings are made by marking folded sheets in his pocket while walking, creating abstract traces of movement. Part of his “unsighted” practice, they explore chance, motion, and perception, translating physical experience into subtle visual forms.

William Anastasi
Walking piece

Las Vegas Piece

Walter De Maria’s 1969 Las Vegas Piece – mile-long bulldozer lines forming a square in the desert – was hard to find even then and is now barely visible. The work’s elusiveness was central to the experience, emphasizing remoteness and chance.

Walter De Maria
Walking piece
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

slew

A short walk or stroll, as in “I’ll take a slew around the harbour before going to bed.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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