Zoë Catherine Art

I’ve been thinking a lot about walking and coming from a big family I think that might have been my way of escaping, to finding a bit of quietness and headspace. I read recently about there’s sort of an inner silence that can happen, and I suppose it was a quietness I don’t know if my brain ever completely shut up but it definitely helped me process things, and think through things, and problem solve. And almost without being conscious of it I think I’ve continued that…maybe it’s a practice you could call it since then. So really from quite a young age until now it always been a method to figure things out and get away and some clarity and I think I share that with so many people that it’s a way to navigate issues but also just the joy of being able to go and see where you end up and you never quite know what you are going to encounter… and the people that you might meet. But it’s such a special thing to be able to do, and now that I am in a place that there is so much natural beauty to go explore it does feel like all sense are firing.

I walked a bit up the coastal path… and I believe it may have been between Hayle and Portreath, sort of working my way back up the north side of Cornwall…and the feeling of the wind blowing the left side of me for 3 1/2- 4 hours and that was quite something. Feeling that you have to push against it but then obviously not pushing too much it’ll send you off the edge…off the cliff! But yes feeling like those wonky trees that shaped by the wind and I’m so interested in the sensory nature of that where you are sweating, your muscles are aching, your thirsty…and yet you have the combination of the wind the sun the sound of the waves the birds, the local wildlife that’s there, the colour of the water and the colour of the flowers, the weeds that you go past it’s… such a wonderful alchemy of everything overly stimulated by it, but yeah alchemy does seem to be the word to come by it, there’s a special kind of magic where ideas and inspiration take place and I think I don’t know if I would have it just sitting viewing the beauty, I think it’s the movement through it…you trying to become friends with this landscape, it can be quite harsh sometimes…but finding yourself within that, finding some thoughts….yeah alchemy