The fourth leg of the grid square walk.
Heading east.
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Solway Walk – Map Art
Sul Waths Crossing the Iapetus Ocean
Following on from my exploration of the Solway I wondered if I could make an object that captured the way it was a real objective place, but was open to a number of subjective impressions.
For a while I have experimented with weaving Ordnance Survey maps, with the grid squares becoming the warp and the weft of the created object. In the past it has been two different maps, but for this I wanted to experiment with two maps of the same place, but shift them so the Solway became kind of extended and ambiguous. Like it is. So I made the object above.
It will never win a Turner Prize but my interest is not in creating ‘Fine Art’, but in using art-making to explore ideas and express experience. What I wanted to express was…
- Blurring the boundary between England and Scotland.
- Showing how the Waths crossed this boundary.
- Make something that looked recognisable from a distance but changed before your eyes as you approached it.
- Make you kind of wonder what it was, a picture, a map, some weaving or needlepoint.
- Shifting your sense of time. The Iapetus Ocean was the water between the two tectonic plates that mashed together to make the Borders. The Solway is all that is left. I liked it as an archaeological object.
- To also have bits of it that were from the time it was made. I liked it as a contemporaneous object as well.
- To work with text and image and object and colour as things to stand in for something else.
Sometime I would like to return to making this as a more aesthetically sophisticated object. But as a starting point, it is a good place to start.
Solway Map 
Close up 
England 
Scotland 
The edge 
The back
enclosure / boundary
Two circular walks around a newly erected fence and the old line between cut and uncut grass.
Enclosure noun Old French - enclos - closed in Similar - Paddock, fold, pen, compound, stockade, ring, yard, pound. An area surrounded by a barrier. A section of a racecourse for a specified activity or group of people. The state of being enclosed, especially in a religious community. The process or policy of fencing in wasteland or common land so as to make it private property, as pursued in much of Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries. A document or object placed in an envelope together with a letter.
Boundary noun Old French - bonde - a visible mark indicating a dividing line. Similar - Border, frontier, borderline, partition, dividing line. A limit of something abstract, especially a subject or sphere of activity. In Cricket, a hit crossing the limits of the field, scoring four or six runs. An entity demarcated from its surroundings. Guidelines or rules or limits that a person creates to identify safe ways for other people to behave towards them.
Circumnavigate verb Latin - circumnavigare - to sail around Similar - Bypass, skirt, compass, circumvent, move around. To sail or travel all the way around (something, especially the world). Go around or avoid (an obstacle). Avoid dealing with (something difficult or unpleasant). The complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (eg. a planet or moon).
Map created with free public ArcGIS account.
Moving Space 