Walks Boxes is an ongoing project I initiated in 2016.
The work began with solitary walks close to home. Gradually, both the geography and the conceptual framework expanded. What started as a personal process evolved into a collaborative, psychogeographical exploration involving artists I met during my MA, as well as local artists walking within their own environments.
To date, the project comprises approximately 30 Walks Boxes.
Overview
The project centres on walking, collecting and ordering.
During each walk, small found objects are gathered — items modest enough to fit within a compartmentalised box. These objects are arranged and preserved as physical traces of place.
A parallel written layer accompanies each walk, documenting location, experience and reflection. In this way, the walker becomes both collector and storyteller.
Each Walks Box functions as a conduit to meaning — a distilled encounter with geography, history, geology, atmosphere and personal perception. Randomness (what is found) meets order (how it is arranged).
Expanding the Geography
As the project developed, I intentionally extended the physical and conceptual distance of the walks.
I invited fellow artists from different parts of the world to participate. Each was asked to follow the same process: walking, collecting, ordering and documenting within their own territory.
In some cases, I sent empty boxes for the artists to complete. In others, they returned collected materials for me to arrange. This exchange created a layered authorship — part theirs, part mine.
To further connect across distance, I challenged myself to summarise each collaborator’s experience — alongside my own interpretation — in a single word.
Process and Continuation
Stillness and meditation gradually became more central to my own walking practice. The walks slowed. Attention deepened.
Walks Boxes remains an expanding body of work — geographically widening and conceptually evolving. It is intended for future exhibition as a collective installation mapping movement, memory and place across multiple territories.
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