Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest.
The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking about the stories and emotional histories we want to include in our tactile, handmade map in the new year.
We have been collecting stories of childhood walks and adventures, bluebell woods that bring us joy, hills and woods lost to quarrying, memories of loved ones embedded in the landscape and ancient history that still resonates with us now. I am marking old hedgerows and traditional meadows, places I’ve known all my life and discoveries I’ve made just in the last few years.
Over the winter we will be working with artist Hannah Moreton in paper and stitch to create a large tactile map of memories, and I’ll be gathering words and stories into an accompanying pamphlet. You can still join and take part in the remaining sessions, 13th December in Loughborough Library or come for the creative workshops in Jan- March in Woodhouse Eaves. Sign up here to get all the details.
The map we make will be exhibited at Charnwood Arts in May 2025, alongside my own new work for Places and Traces (maps and sketchbooks above).
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