Walks Thinking outside the box Sculpture

For this development in the 'Walks' project I break the rules: Collect many similar items and allow them to spill out of the box. Here I bring the project back to the garden of my 17th century farmhouse in Dorset, UK and collect broken blue and white china, items spanning centuries. Very evocative of people who lived here before me. Walks Project short description: Walking, collecting, documenting the experience and placing the collected items into small readymade compartmentalised cabinets. Each item collected has an implied visual narrative. Inspired by a certain fictional taxonomy in a Chinese encyclopaedia mentioned in the preface of Michel Foucault's book The Order of Things: Foucault, M. (2010). The order of things. 1st ed. London: Routledge. (Foucault, 2010: xxii) I began this 'walks' project by Walking and Collecting, Exploring Randomness and Order Order: I began by tasking myself to initially take three walks and collect 10 item to fit in readymade compartmentalised boxes.  The readymade, a nod to Duchamp (Heartney, 2010: 40) and my layer of newness.  Walking in my garden, and the immediate vicinity of my old farmhouse on the Dorset coast. Randomness: Represented in the unknown objects I’d find and place randomly in the boxes. As the project developed I added a documentary layer, in the form or an accompanying written piece done during or shortly after each walk. Expanding the project beyond the initial three walks as well as geographically I went to seaside towns both east and west of the original walks. Extending the project further, to what I termed a psych-conceptual level, I invited my fellow artist on the MA course to participate, following the pattern I'd set to walk, collect and document their experience, thus extending the walks around the world to so far: China, Sweeden, Scotland, Nepal, Ireland, USA, other parts of the UK and Austria. When I received their 'walks boxes' I then engaging through stillness and meditating on their collection and through reading and re-reading their written work, encompassed my interpretation of their experience into a single word. Other walks have so far been taken: 1. on a fire site that was on a Ley line, 2. an urban psychogeographical collaborative walk and 3. a further collaborative walk. The documentary layer is not shown here on this site at the moment, and as the project is ongoing, different 'walks boxes' experiences will be added over time. Also, there have been other developments within this project which I will add at a later date.

Sculpture:Found Objects on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in

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