March 2025

Sarah Bild, 5 Gates, Montreal, Canada March 8th, 2025

Sarah: I created a written/photo map of my walk through the Champ des possibles (Field of possibilities). I had tried to record my voice but the wind was too strong. I will revisit the walk on a milder, calmer day…

Gate 1: This is where I practised my Wall Series over two summers in 2017 and 2018. It is an urban wall, belonging to 1000 Carpets and Tiles. It is constantly assaulted by graffiti and then repainted by the owners. Sometimes weeds grow there, almost wild through cracks in the sidewalk and other times, it’s all cleared up. I like to remember my practice and let its lessons remind me of coming into sensation through my breath.

Anna Walker, 5 Gates, Buckinghamshire, UK, March 4th – 7th, 2025

Pause at each Gate. Notice, what do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? How do you feel? What thoughts are flashing through your mind? How did you leave your house? What clothes are you wearing? What is the weather like?

I’ve been reflecting upon all the places I’ve walked, all the gates (real, metaphorical, and symbolic) that I have passed through. All the points of contact, of resting, of standing, listening, watching, noticing, of trying to catch my thoughts… to think. Movement into video, into movement, into sound. How do I capture/differentiate this walk embedded within so many others that I have walked. I have been walking most of my life, from place to place, season after season, in sunshine, wind, rain and snow. Walking legs walking, swishing, falling, footsetps caught by the earth, one foot, one step after another. It’s never one walk, it’s all walks. As I walk I embody every step I have walked through my life, every step my ancestors have walked. When I can’t fall asleep, I walk in my mind, the walk I make daily from point to point.