Walking and mapping our trees

Event Information

By collectively journeying through a landscape we can experience the intimacy of our surroundings together and perhaps create new ways of interacting with our everyday environment; on our doorstep. Shifting our focus, we can look to the budding hawthorn, feel the crinkling of an autumn leaf in our hand or hear the sound of falling rain. When we walk together, we can braid these moments in a collective tapestry. 

We will meet initially online via zoom for a meet and greet and a sharing place, receiving our tree mapping guides. The guides will offer eco-therapeutic activity and creative prompts to engage with while outside walking. Journeying singularly, held within the same timeframe, we will move through our respective places in a collective walk. We will gather together online afterwards to share experience, bringing the story of our trees into the space. The gathering will offer a safe, holding space for inner and outer exploration and reflection, archiving our walks through sensory drawing and memory mapping, preserving our encounters.

What you’ll need -
Paper
Drawing materials ie. pencils/ charcoal/crayons

Contributors

Artist and Eco-therapist, Stephanie Whitelaw cultivates through her art practice personal engagements with local landscapes, both physical and digital. Exploring themes of reciprocity, her work explores our dialogue with nature in both urban and rural contexts, through walking and site-responsive art making. 

Eco-therapy is woven through her participatory works; building safe spaces that encourage a deeper sense of understanding ourselves, each other and the eco-system which we are a part of.

https://www.stephaniewhitelaw.co.uk