A virtual walk -

"A Walk in the Park"
graphic design & collage by Mick Mather

"... and I've been walking 'round with memories way too long ..."
- Iris Dement

Walking as an Arts Practice Series -

"An Outside Inside Walk"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... all walking is discovery; on foot we take the time to see things whole ..."
- Hal Borland

NEW from the Virtual Walk Series -

"Walking Across A Broken Landscape"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Just for fun, I've embarked on a series of virtual walks. These excursions are born of my internet researches and are, mostly, accidental and serendipitous discoveries that have much in common with my real walking art projects. The other thread that connects is the documentation of the evidence, the path, the topography, the steady step and the benefit of a pure experience. Like Jane Doe in today's post, a journal is carried for the purpose of making notes, itemizing thoughts, sensory perceptions, drawings, maps, sketches, writing poetry and gathering interesting things found along the way. Hey! Let's get going!

Thinking back -

"Ayres Rock: A Dream Walk (Revisited)"
digitally manipulated monotype & collage by Mick Mather

You can go back to this post of August 11th, 2007 for further details about this piece. As I bring it forward to the present day, the image arrived as I was doing my 2008 year end review and some file back-up. At the same time I've recently been immersed in a series of site specific land art sculpture installations along with further study, preparation and development of a series of "walking art projects". As you can see, this image is currently one documentation for a virtual walking project that is still a seed buried inside my fertile, if disturbed, mind. By the way, a dedication this time goes out to my very good friend, Mary Stebbins Taitt.