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Fieldwalking – Groundlines

Fieldwalking - Groundlines

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72 Groundlines drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints have been found. They were made over a few months, each one created in a different place on Abbey Home Farm, ‘mapping’ the fields through walking, pausing to draw, slowly getting to know the land, it stories, its visible and hidden layers. I spent time amongst the labelled tins of flint in the barn, walked the tracks and fields of the farm, and camped there at night. I was able to lose myself for hours wandering from field to field, musing over the various field names from Dancy’s Fancy and Happy Lands, to Barn Sisters and Hitchens Knowle. There are old ways that pass through and alongside the farm, with long standing connections to people and places further afield. This work was part of Field Walking, an exhibition connecting art and archaeology at the Corinium Museum Cirencester, with flints found by the farmer at Abbey Home Farm alongside creative responses by four artists.

Credits

Ruth Broadbent

APA style reference

Broadbent, R. (2024). Fieldwalking – Groundlines. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/fieldwalking-groundlines/

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pedestrian acts

By de Certeau: In “Walking in the City”, de Certeau conceives pedestrianism as a practice that is performed in the public space, whose architecture and behavioural habits substantially determine the way we walk. For de Certeau, the spatial order “organises an ensemble of possibilities (e.g. by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g. by a wall that prevents one from going further)” and the walker “actualises some of these possibilities” by performing within its rules and limitations. “In that way,” says de Certeau, “he makes them exist as well as emerge.” Thus, pedestrians, as they walk conforming to the possibilities that are brought about by the spatial order of the city, constantly repeat and re-produce that spatial order, in a way ensuring its continuity. But, a pedestrian could also invent other possibilities. According to de Certeau, “the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform or abandon spatial elements.” Hence, the pedestrians could, to a certain extent, elude the discipline of the spatial order of the city. Instead of repeating and re-producing the possibilities that are allowed, they can deviate, digress, drift away, depart, contravene, disrupt, subvert, or resist them. These acts, as he calls them, are pedestrian acts.

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