Structural Passages Feature Artist Melinda Hunt: Walking and Drawing While Traveling

Side 1, Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, 2024.
Metallic pigment and pencil on paper, 15 x 42 cm.

Side 2, Cascais, Portugal, 2024.
Graphite on paper, 15 x 42 cm.

Melinda Hunt: Walking and Drawing While Traveling

My drawing practice is an exploration of forms of thinking, feeling and knowing. Utilizing exteroception (awareness of sensations derived from outside the body), interoception (awareness of sensations detected within the body) and proprioception (awareness of the body’s position and movement in space) I draw on paper while walking. The practice ensures an intense ‘presence’; a state of being that is intentionally. The drawings that I produce are of less significance than the quality of ‘presence’ the process has generated. Having said that, when looking at the drawings at a later time, I can revisit the place, recalling what was heard and seen and felt.

In the case of this double-sided travel drawing, side 1 was made while walking through an historical site in Lisbon, side 2 while relaxing after a swim.

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Side 1, Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, 2024.
Metallic pigment and pencil on paper, 15 x 42 cm.
Side 2, Cascais, Portugal, 2024.
Graphite on paper, 15 x 42 cm.

Melinda will be presenting a ‘walkshop’ at the International Walking Arts Encounters 2025 in Prespa, Greece (30 June – 6 July 2025). Registration is now open.

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