Michael Ares Photography. Barebones communication. Mark Tweedie | Pinhole photography | bookbinding | poetry. Steps A good day’s walk makes you feel like your heart has overflowed, that it cannot be contained by the physical confines of the body. It spills out into the trees and hills, it is carried in the wind, winds its way through the air-blown grass like a serpent, runs at your heels like a happy dog. Joy is impossible to describe, for what lifts me may not have any kind of effect on you. But when I walk I feel a part of the world and not apart from it. This sense mixes with everything, I mix with it and, quite literally, en-joy. Walking, when done in the right spirit, is creative, or at least fills me with the same ineffable sense that something essential, something visceral is happening. Travelling on foot gives so much time for mental release thanks to its basic slowness. Working creatively, too, exercises the same attraction and endows what we do with identity and dynamism.
Perhaps, this is why purely electronic media, whilst brilliant, can feel unsatisfying. Picturenoise. Beyond Obvious.