Lunar Walks (Women Walking Artists)

On the 27th July 2018 Women Walking Artists completed their first walk at 6.30 am. Artists Tiffany Robinson who lives in West Sussex and Karen Hawse from Cornwall discussed the project over Zoom, creating a framework in which this project will unfold.

Each full moon the three of us will walk at an arranged time, together, but apart. Tiffany sets herself and intention or metaphor, whereas Karen and I are more open to what we might experience. Having said that, I do have an intention and that is to always walk to one of two long barrows in the village where I live, that is if I am at home when there is a full moon. One of the long barrows provides the foundation for the village church and the other is in a field about half a mile away, these early Neolithic monuments confirm to me that this relatively small village has been inhabited for thousands of years (read Christopher Tilley)

Walking on the full moon feels like a significant act, following the rhythms of the body and its monthly cycle and the folklore associated with women and the pull of the tides, forcing periods to flow and babies to be born. The language is also rampant, words including lunatic, hysterical which have and do put women in their place https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/mar/08/mind-your-language-feminisation-madness

I plan to make work from these lunar walks, but as yet I am not sure what, so far, I have been documenting through photography and drawing, which may translate into manipulated screen-prints.