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Modified 16-May-22
Created 15-Feb-16
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Photo series. Collected images from the UK, Ireland and Austria.

I remain fascinated [and gently encouraged] by how often I come across these unsanctioned route-ways across our predetermined urban landscapes.

Somehow, for all the formality and domesticity of our modern lives, the rules, regulations, the control,… our feet, and our will, know something of where they want to go and will not be contained by concrete or fences nor the ideas and rules that set them in place. Something in us knows better, and with or without consciousness of it, we will tread the routes we wish, our desire lines.

Despite our long time urbanised lives, it still seems to come naturally to us to find the direct routes we wish to go. I see something here of our instinctive wildness as creatures with ancestors that have walked the wild earth for hundreds of thousands of years, long before borders and boundaries were laid down. And I take heart at the ease at which we subtly disobey modern conventions, and for all our distance from the lives of our ancestors who walked without human imposed conditions, know our instinct and wish to walk the earth as if it were without so many of our modern constraints. I take heart at this action, that our earth connecting capacities we see here in these desire lines may also not be lost, but perhaps only dormant. That some part of us at least remains part wild.

Inner and outer pathways through the hardened forms of contemporary society.
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