Detail: The Map, The Walking Project 2015
The Yarra River (Surrounding the Abbotsford Convent.) The Walking Project 2015
The Walking Project
2015
The peninsula of land on which the Abbotsford
Convent in Melbourne is located is a palimpsest of walking tracks, both ancient
and current.
The Walking Project is a record of a contemporary experience of walking this land.
It is ‘...an exploration of the ghosts and voices
that haunt ancient paths, of tales that tracks keep and tell.’
Macfarlane, Robert, The Old Ways, p xi, Hamish
Hamilton, Penguin Books, London, England, 2012
The Walking Project has three components:
The Map 2015: a
site responsive, layered document of my walks in the Convent grounds over one
year.
Archival Images 2015: an interpretive amalgam of archival
photos of the Convent years 1863 - 1975.
The Collaborative Map 2015: a collective response to the layers
of human pathways and practices that continue to evolve in The Convent
precinct.
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