Wayfaring Score
Here is a small offering for you. It’s a score or practice to explore when feeling lost or distant.
It’s an invitation to go for a walk and to be taken for a walk.
It’s an invitation to be curious about the meeting points of me and beyond-me, how they intermingle.
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Leave your indoor space… and go outside…
And just take a moment, once you’re outside… to look around…. feel around…
Notice the below, behind, above and in-front of you…
Notice the inbetween-ness…
Allow the surroundings to come to your attention…
And without thinking too hard, find traces - threads - lines to follow… it could be a crack in the pavement…. a bird… a gust of wind… a cyclist… a road sign… it could be the shape of your neighbours hedge… or the shadow cast by railings….
Allow yourself to be taken for a walk…. follow these lines… and allow yourself to play…. maybe you’ll change your pace… or your stride… as you find different lines to follow…. maybe you’ll make the shape of the hedge with your whole body… maybe just with your hands…
Following traces… threads…. leaving traces and threads… leaving tracks… following tracks…
The invitation here is to practice what Tim Ingold describes as ‘being situated within a field of relations which as it unfolds, actively and ceaselessly brings forms into being’ (p51 The Perception of the Environment).
How can we practice an openness to being changed by what we meet, while retaining our own form and structure, our own edges?
Return to your home space… notice what is with you… write or draw or make something.
