‘Walking in my Skin’ Transcript
1 hour walk in Wharncliffe Woods
‘walking in my skin’
be in your body
walk using your body
walking in your body
posture
breathe
tall with the trees
feeling old like some of the trees
gnarled like the tree
marked skin
imagine I’m a tree
walking through time
pinprick in time
uneven
leaning
aching
dull ache
lengthen my spine
lengthen my neck
chest forward
shoulders back
legs moving freely beneath
one arm swinging freely….one attached to dog
dull ache in left foot
layering of trees
verticals
planes of leaves
trying not to think!
letting thoughts go
listen
cool and fresh
wet
wet air …but not raining
stooping under branches
wet leaves on my face
talking the water with me…to another place
crunching
stopping with nosey dog
i think it only 14 degrees or so but fresh
some of the wind is quite silky as it brushes your face…warm and soft…other os a bit harsh…silky blasts…sharp blasts. the silkiness suggest fluidity like sort of velvet …velvet or silk …a bit like in the old ‘silk cut’ adverts
downhill letting gravity take me…easy…a little bit clunky..strange what i notice… abut of old pipe sticking out the ground……sign saying ‘no horse’ the manmade things , mainly because, possibly because its the minimum between all the leaves and trees and grass and nettles and brambles and dead leaves and earth
‘’Good morning’!
3 humans pounding uphill
1 human and 2 dogs sauntering downhill
1 man tiptoeing uphill
linear …circular…uphill….glowing…warming…wetting
mind beginning to get saturated with thoughts…which i was trying to avaoid….but its mainly about walking. we’ve been walking forever….since man went on 2 feet i suppose
with purpose….without purpose
take a picture, take it home, interpret it in your way
make a drawing, take it home, interpret it in your way
just took a photo of a root i’ve walked over 100s and 100s of times before… a dead root…and its actually its a little reminiscent of something i made last time….is that why I noticed it?
mapping making
crossing ideas
subconscious conscious
picking things out without too much thought
a bit hungry now… feel my tummy
my mind wondered off the last few minutes….I got thinking about all sorts of things….but I think i managed it for about 95% of the walk, which I think is quite good, to have just kept within the moment in the zone….I started thinking about my favourite instagram person (camerag47) that i follow and actually their lifestyle and work and everything all seems to go together perfectly…i don’t know his life with dogs, life in his workshop, breakfast, dinner. I don’t know…its something about the calmness of it all.
but my mind did wander off for about 5 minutes or so, but its at the end. anyway I’m back at the car.
……a little hint of what came from the walk
