Traces

Thinking about traces. Bodies in landscapes. My own and those of everyone else. Fox, badger, grass snake, beetle. Intimate glimpses into passing stories; unquiet ends and bright beginnings. Tangled life lines in shared and specific places. In ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ Rebecca Solnit discusses the Tibetan concept of ‘shul’ - the impression of something that used to be there. And they are everywhere it seems. In footprints and fossils, in fur and feathers and bones. In the lines drawn by a burrowing beetle. Ephemeral hinterlands between presence and absence…

I'm delighted to have been invited to be part of @embodieddailypractice by the wonderful Rebecca Mair Bell @shecanseethenhills. A slow, collaborative conversation between a string of 19 makers - each responding to the person before and exploring the meaning of the term within their own practice. The final works will be published in a zine in 2025.…