Automatic Journey I, 2021

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Monoprint on newsprint (25 x 18 cm)

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‘Automatic Journey I’ is based on tracked walks made through various woodland environments. Moving away from marked paths and into the forest, the artist allows walking to become an automatic, instinctive act; guided by terrain, rhythm, and bodily response rather than pre-determined direction.​

The looping and entangled lines record these movements as traces of presence, hesitation, and return. Rather than mapping a destination, the work documents the experience of immersion: wandering, slowing, circling, and becoming temporarily disoriented. The surface is worked and reworked, echoing the layered textures of the forest floor and the accumulation of repeated journeys.​

Part-figural forms emerge within the abstraction, suggesting an animal or instinctual counterpart to the walker. These forms reflect the shift from observation to participation, where the body responds to the woodland as a lived, sensory space rather than a landscape to be viewed.

‘Automatic Journey I’ explores walking as a form of drawing, and the forest as both physical and psychological terrain, where movement, memory, and intuition leave their marks.

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