Walking The Line

'Walking The Line' - River Chelt

Walk completed: 29/9/20

My Thoughts/ Reflection of exercise:

To walk a line is to document your experience of a journey through any medium and method. In this case, I chose to make zines in order to be able to quickly sketch what I was seeing. Then afterwards I could layer and draw inspiration from them to make up an A1 sheet of paper. Overall, once I started to notice the rich details of the plant life and how people interacted with the space, I found it quite overwhelming; almost a sensory overload of information to note down. Therefore it became a case of selecting particular objects to take interest in versus other less important details. Hence why my final presentation of the walk is a series of loose lines layered together in a chaotic sequence, starting from top left and splaying across the page. My initial idea was to encapsulate the Cubist belief that an object can be represented by showing all possible viewpoints at once. By having multiple angles and features combined into one composition the result is a visual headache, a feeling not dissimilar to when you truly start to observe the endless array of life out there. A last minute decision was to include a graphite rubbing of the sheet of paper itself. Texture was generated organically from the layers of glue and paper leading to an abstract representation of natural pattern like the veins in a leaf or tree bark. The folds and crumples link together in a network of line. Despite being only a bi-product of the collage, the rubbing on the reverse side of the A1, is actually my favourite part of the piece.





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