Notes for Walking is a proposed new locative artwork and spatial narrative, an intimate and reflective exploration of a specific landscape, using mobile phones and location based technologies. Taking the poetic, haiku-like instructions of Japanese Buddhist pilgrimage as a conceptual starting point; Notes for Walking will involve people gathering and following a set of image, text and video notes as they traverse the landscape; as if they are picking up the fragments of a notebook which has split apart and scattered its pages across the ground. Using mobile phones to access the fragments within an augmented environment; people will experience the real world overlaid with questions, longings, musings, and instructions; like a monk following the notes of an artist, or a poet following the trail of a sadhu.
Notes for Walking will draw upon the geography, the natural world, and our place within it, exploring the unexpected joys, discoveries and liminal zones embedded within everyday life, and the landscapes we move through. It will lead us into a re-examination of the real world and the spaces we traverse, re-engaging with the world that is before our eyes, and beneath our feet.
Notes for Walking : locative artwork / spatial narrative by Megan Heyward