Back in 2017 I walked, and drew, a constellation of Cassiopeia in the urban street grid (the queen on her throne) through the city (it’s my avatar!). I re-walked it recently, and today I completed this new version – 20″ x 26″, acrylic, watercolor and ink.
I haven’t done walking work in some time, but I have been walking a lot. It’s always been an embodied spiritual practice for me: noticing, awareness, movement. Simply to get out and go somewhere…anywhere. Just to go.
I am re-engaging with the walking-as-drawing, because I love it. The practice offers me a scaffolding for what might be called a symbolic life. The daily walk is a offering in service to the gods of my 48 yo everyday – the sleep god, the protein god, the step count god, the HYSA god (drive less save $) – engaging with the deeper energies and ancient wisdoms gleaned from the systems of mystics and seekers from time immemorial, such as astrology, the Enneagram, and Jungian understandings of individuation and shadow work.
These walks matter, just as your walks matter! We are alive my friends – we get to bear witness to so much, and share our journeys with one-another. I don’t want to miss any of it.
