Reflections on The Long Walk, 2011 – Pt.2
From Blog4Culture summer days spent wandering beside the waters of babylon Aug 22nd, 2011 by Jordan Howland The second in a series of reflections on The Long Walk, 2011. D.K. Pan and NKO were commissioned by Susan Robb to create artwork for The Long Walk. D.K. and NKO have collaborated on numerous creative endeavors including...
Reflections on The Long Walk – Pt.1
From Blog4Culture reflections on the long walk…a pedestrian adventure Aug 18th, 2011 by Jordan Howland Susan Robb and a group of 50 trail trampers walked more than 45 miles along our fabulous Regional Trails System over the course of four days, July 28th-31st. They trekked from Golden Gardens Park to Snoqualmie Falls – through...
Todd Shalom gays up the dérive
I met Todd Shalom four or five years ago at Walter De Maria’s Lightning Fields in New Mexico. We wandered around the desert together watching jackrabbits, strange insects, and the light change while talking about love and relationships. Year later we both started walking projects (oddly enough, another artist who was there with us, Aaron...
Weee, weeee, weeee
Foot pain and blisters ran rampant during The Long Walk, 2010. The walk coincided with some of the hottest days of the year (95+ degrees), feet were sweaty and swollen, and in some cases, shoe choice ranged from the obviously questionable to the downright perplexing. By the last day many of us resembled the walking...
Reason for Walking #763
In Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory Lucy Lippard writes “An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength...