Terra Incognita is the name traditionally used to describe uncharted areas on a map. This project is a personal voyage into unknown and unknowable areas of physical geography, thought processes and chance happenings.
I will walk and ride along a chosen route through unfamiliar landscapes in order to chart the unpredictable and random nature of journeying. Add a horse to the mix and that unpredictability is ratcheted up still further, requiring a focus on animalistic instincts to be added into the equation.
Each days' ride and walk will be a kind of 'performative gesture', and will become a new page in the journal of that journey to record the experience of what it is to be a transient human being (with a horse) moving through a modern world of constancy whose natural surfaces fluctuate between weather and seasons, growth and decay, human habitation and wilderness.
By recording the phenology of this journey through the artist as observer, commentator, listener and recorder, I hope to stumble upon the processes of transformation which are contained within the liminal spaces between 'Gravity and Grace' (Simone Weil, 1952) and thus arrive at a new syntax for a creative practice.
It is also a road trip to raise funds for the RDA.
For more detailed information on the story behind this journey and the route, etc., please visit Pilgrim on Horseback.
I will walk and ride along a chosen route through unfamiliar landscapes in order to chart the unpredictable and random nature of journeying. Add a horse to the mix and that unpredictability is ratcheted up still further, requiring a focus on animalistic instincts to be added into the equation.
Each days' ride and walk will be a kind of 'performative gesture', and will become a new page in the journal of that journey to record the experience of what it is to be a transient human being (with a horse) moving through a modern world of constancy whose natural surfaces fluctuate between weather and seasons, growth and decay, human habitation and wilderness.
By recording the phenology of this journey through the artist as observer, commentator, listener and recorder, I hope to stumble upon the processes of transformation which are contained within the liminal spaces between 'Gravity and Grace' (Simone Weil, 1952) and thus arrive at a new syntax for a creative practice.
It is also a road trip to raise funds for the RDA.
For more detailed information on the story behind this journey and the route, etc., please visit Pilgrim on Horseback.
