Peter J Evans (Newcastle, UK)
THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING

Hold a pencil just resting into the paper’s surface as the journey starts, once again at the end. Do the marks mirror the other passengers? It’s never happening the same there as it is here, no matter how small the distance, how similar the surroundings.

There are numerous comings and goings, take offs and landings, arrivals and departures, constantly occurring. On the surface one journey resembles another, but each movement is individual, each cellular twitch unique and even in stillness we travel.

In this work, visitors who are flying to or from the festival are invited to take the airline disposal bag from the seat in front of them and, in graphite, map the rush of g-force and drop of altitude through their own muscular system. These drawings are then gifted to a growing and ongoing collection that displays not only the geographical distances we all travel but the gaps and similarities within our shared experiences.

Follow the instructions in this video:

Fascinated by systems and patterns, Peter J Evans explores how such structures can be found even in supposed chaos. Ideas about movement, memory, time, the un-quantifiable and aesthetic beauty inform his practice, which finds an affinity with Russell Hoban’s writings concerning ‘the moment under the moment’. He seeks to create metaphorical maps of the visible and invisible links between objects and sensations, combining the concrete and the philosophical.

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