Hello. I'm baaaaack. Haiiii long-term subscribers (aka people I know)! And anyone else new to these random textual shores. Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been seven months since my last blog session.
A quick diary post is in order because the last six months have been kind of crazy on the art walking front, taking me from How Women Walk at 4WCoP, to Parallel Walking with women in Yogyakarta, to Female Calculations in South Birmingham (announcements on that and other exciting things soon).
For those who don't jump the links, the summary is that November to March was dominated by Walkspace's first funded project – a Parallel Walking project with Jalan Gembira (a female-led walking collective in Indonesia) that was funded by the British Council. There was a cross-cultural exhibition, a zine, an online launch and artist talks, two digital collages, both a long and short film, and a whole lot of 12-hour days on helping pull it all together. (Links and details.)
The result of doing that on top of my day job was that I had a visually induced vertigo attack that has taken a few weeks to subside. I then became allergic to my meds for it. And the visual dizziness made my day job very difficult since it was triggered by too much screen work – and I'm a digital editor.
But after a week away, new anti-blue-light occupational glasses and screen breaks every 20 minutes, I think I'm back – and able to blog again.
Which is a good thing because there are a few big announcements coming up. Stay tuned!