Walking
Practice
Walking as research method, as generative process, as art form in itself. Long-distance routes, urban drifts, and the slow accumulation of attention that only the body in motion can produce.
Field Notes
The Coastal Transect
Five days walking the coast road south from the city. Recording the transition from concrete to sandstone, from traffic hum to wave break. Each evening: notes, photographs, a GPS trace that would later become a drawing.
Urban Drift: Industrial Periphery
A psychogeographic mapping of the industrial fringe — the spaces between the city and the not-city. Following rail corridors, drainage channels, power easements. The infrastructure that makes the visible city possible but is itself designed to be invisible.
Night Walk: Solstice
Walking through the shortest night of the year, from dusk to dawn, following the river from its suburban source to the harbour. A durational performance with no audience — except the foxes, the possums, and the late-shift workers at the all-night servo.
The Commute, Defamiliarised
Walking my daily commute route — normally taken by train — every day for a month. The same path, 30 times, at the same time of day. Documenting how repetition transforms the familiar into something strange, and how attention compounds over iterations.
Why Walk?
There's a kind of thinking that only happens at 5 kilometres per hour. Slower than a bicycle, faster than standing still. The body's rhythm entrains the mind into a particular frequency of attention — open, peripheral, associative — that I've never been able to produce sitting at a desk.
Every walk generates material for the other practices. Photographs. Audio recordings. GPS traces that become generative drawings. Notebook entries that become essays. The walking practice is the engine that feeds everything else.
I work in a lineage that includes Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, the Situationists, and the deep mapping traditions of Tim Robinson and Robert Macfarlane. But the walks are my own — shaped by the particular landscape of coastal Australia and the particular restlessness of a mind that makes things across too many mediums.