Melinda Hunt, Walking and Drawing the Familiar
This small drawing
was made while responding to a walking prompt:
Walk with
a friend. Walk until you arrive at an intersection. Take turns deciding which
direction to go next, forwards or backwards, left or right. Notice how this
prompt transforms the walking experience.
My walking
drawings are an expression of my connection to and affection for the place I
live on Gadigal Country in inner city Sydney. The experience
of walking and drawing engenders feelings of belonging that affirm identity –
we are different; however, we are all entitled to move about in this setting. We
all belong regardless of species, race, gender, ability or age.
When you
give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to
know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and
associations that will be waiting for you when you return, while new places
offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the
best ways of exploring the mind; walking travels both terrains.
Rebeca Solnit, Wanderlust, 2014
Newtown,
Gadigal, 2024
Ink and graphite on paper, 30 x 30 cm.
Other photos: inner city Sydney
Melinda is a
member of the Australian Walking Artists https://www.instagram.com/auswalkingartists/
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