My work explores the ways in which reiterated rituals transform particular times and spaces: through drawing and performance, I make patterns, navigational lines, that disclose the ‘where’ and ‘when,’ the tangible and intangible, of a place. By walking, on the ground, on fabric, paper, or velum, often on a graphite text, I use my body as an instrument of absorption and inscription: the text colours me, marks the soles of my feet, as I ‘walk it’ into place. Duration and dwelling animate my work: my performances often last hours, either in galleries or in site-specific public areas, in quarries or in forests, as I respond to a particular space, its exigencies, and offer my own history, walk my own memory, into its textures. “Walking a Line” is a series of ritualised gifts: as I walk a path — in ways intimate and contemplative, meditative and hypnotic — I attempt to offer as much as I occupy, to reveal traces as much as to leave them, to embody the history of the place as much as I change it. Interiorising and distributing text and memory in these ways is also cleansing: I return specificity to a place after I have transformed it into its own kinetic, universal act: walking.
Life: Always under construction