Homage
to the the white road,
the long track, those paths that
countless generations of humans
have walked across the earth and are still
walking as they flee the effects of climate change and war.
AMBIT
Commissioned for the Museum of Object Research exhibition, Neither Use Nor Ornament (NUNO) at OVADA, Oxford.
This project was a combination of walking, making and photography.
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I made an object of no use,
using fine sock yarn and 3mm needles,
knitting every mile that lay between myself
and the other neurodivergent NUNO artists.
An
inch
of knitting
equalled 1 mile.
488 miles separated us.
The central 6 stitches represented
the artists, looping together in a cable pattern.
Several
long distance
walks were undertaken
in the spirit of pilgrimage,
locating myself in the landscape, artistically and spiritually.
Lastly, I walked the 58 miles from my (then) home
in Birmingham, to OVADA in Oxford,
carrying the completed object
to the exhibition
venue.
The Installation at OVADA
curated by Sonia Boue
