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A Philosophy of Walking
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history … The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life. In A Philosophy of Walking, a
Make every yesterday a dream of happiness
Jenny Staff hosted the "Invisible to Visible" workshop, transformed into a video recording by Kel Portman. The work symbolizes Jenny's transformative pilgrimage in Lancashire, aiming to reconnect with herself and her surroundings. The piece involves collaborative walking, drawing, poetry, and meditation, culminating in a powerful and reflective experience.
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The Buddhist monks – and their dog – captivating Americans while walking across the country for peace | The Independent
The monks have been surprised to see their message transcend ideologies Source: The Buddhist monks – and their dog – captivating Americans while walking across the country for peace | The Independent
A Philosophy of Walking
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history … The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life. In A Philosophy of Walking, a
Make every yesterday a dream of happiness
Jenny Staff hosted the "Invisible to Visible" workshop, transformed into a video recording by Kel Portman. The work symbolizes Jenny's transformative pilgrimage in Lancashire, aiming to reconnect with herself and her surroundings. The piece involves collaborative walking, drawing, poetry, and meditation, culminating in a powerful and reflective experience.
I am pilgrim #15749 on the Walk of Wisdom, a self-guided path that winds through the eastern part of the Netherlands. In July 2024, a dear friend and I spent eight days walking alongside fields and waterways, atop dikes, up and down hills, through forests and sandy heaths. We walked through towns and villages, over bridges and canals, in sunshine and in rain.
Walking made new learning possible. I learned to know the feel of different surfaces through the soles of my feet. I learned to know the strength of my own body and the endurance needed to keeping putting one foot in front of another. I learned to greet new neighbors as we repeatedly encountered brambles and nettles, yarrow and rowanberry, gradually attuning myself to the surroundings and learning to listen in this place.
The eight-part text of this sound piece is a meditation upon the rhythm of walking, getting lost and found, the strange becoming familiar as we learned to walk in a new way.
Credits
I created this piece while in residence at the Sound Studies Institute, University of Alberta (Canada) in January 2025
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