This is a set of walks that encourage going off-piste, walks that invite you to unite as part of nature. Walks through which to meet and learn the unusual beings that dwell deep within the woods, and within yourself. This deck explores our relationship with the woods through the ideas of queer ecofeminism – acknowledging the diversity of the natural world, blurring boundaries, and treading with openness and respect.
At its heart, tarot is a storytelling device. A deck of symbols and narratives that can spark conversations, inspire ideas, and reveal new perspectives. This “walking tarot” invites you to go one step further – it invites you to enact whole new stories of care for the woods, for ourselves and for one another.
Drawing on the ancient wisdom of tarot and of Britain’s wild lands, these cards have been written through conversations with the communities of the ancient Forest of Hatfield, and drawn over long nights camping out in the British woods. These are walks that invite care for the woods, for ourselves and for one another.
By Kirsty Badenoch with Wayward, Published by Mouldy Books. Created through a commission by National Trust and Essex Cultural Diversity Project, supported by Arts Council England.
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“Back and forth, together and apart, they walked and walked. Gida and Lutea, back and forth, by moon lochs and sphagnum constellations, winding binding the mountains and the forests. Back and forth, back and forth, they walked their own meanings into or along the verges of the A832. Outwards in discovery, anticipation, with purpose or trepidation. Now slowing each footstep to draw out time. Returning, exhausted, bereft, carrying the fallen in their arms in silence.”
‘To an island in a loch on an island in a loch’ is a collaborative artist book by Kirsty Badenoch and Tom Jeffreys. It is designed as a kind of landscape, exploring interplays between drawing and writing, and unfolding overlaps between the multispecies voices of the forest. Borrowing its form from the dimensions of an OS map, a mythological tale leads through ancient undergrowth, and strange drawings emerge from the understorey.
The book leads through a few scattered relics of the boreal forest, multispecies voices, walking, growth, walking, decay, and the shadowy grey-green bits where writing becomes drawing, or vice-versa. It forms part of a wider project developing out of a temporary forest studio set up in a private forestry plantation in north-west Scotland. This ongoing project addresses the ecological and political significance of ancient woodlands as sites of entanglement between multiple human and nonhuman bodies and voices.
Published by Mouldy Books. Limited first edition run of 150. Hand-stitched in London.
The book launch will be at Staffordshire St Gallery, Peckham on 9th November 2023, as part of the exhibition ‘falling / fallen / felled’. PRE-ORDER HERE
The Likan Antay tribe of the Atacama plains are not people of the desert but people of water. Tataputaracny resides here as guardian of the water, a formless spirit snake of the river. Permission must be asked before crossing her body.
The river maps are drawn over the course of three weeks on OS map papers, walking up and down the former flow of the dry river bed of Rio San Pedro. Footstep on footstep on footstep turns to flow.
One-off map in four interchangeable parts. Charcoal, graphie and colour pencil on OS Map Papers, 1000 x 890mm. Made as part of the La Wayaka Current Residency, Chile 2024.
‘Cartographies of the Imagination is a wondrous collection of introductions to potential architectural novels. Written and crafted in drawings, models, installations, 3D scans and collages, this atlas of 33 mapping projects tells tales of fact and fiction. Gardens, the Silk road, Europe, Asia, a cottage, New York, debris, atmospheric curiosities, archaeology, volcanic islands, female cities, ghost cars, cosmic maps, the unconscious, golden clouds, lakes, geological monuments and the moon, are amongst some of the characters these projects narrate with. The settings are real and imagined, poetic and critical. Lost lands and the importance of going nowhere. Reconstructed spaces by acute observation and the dissection of shadows and their shadows. Improbable maps that act as rehearsals for the creation of places. Re-remembered bodies; versatile vessels that bring together improbable routes for future explorers. And sometimes, the most mysterious thing about a half-place, the place that exists between the real and the imagined, the fact that it’s not mysterious at all. The direction these mapping projects take suggests a measure of the world which is not settled. Where symbols shift, data is poetically gleaned and softness prevails.’
The Cartographies of the Imagination book presents an atlas of alternative maps, gathering over thirty works from the worlds of architecture, landscape, painting, sound, technology and film. Navigating across scales, times, realities and the imagination, this book charts practices and processes of cartography, challenging the outer reaches of human exploration and the definition of a map. The book accompanies and inspires the festival conversations.
The Cartographies of the Imagination book has a limited availability, if you are interested in purchasing a copy please email cartographiesoftheimagination@gmail.com.
Foreward: Ifigeneia Liangi
Introduction: Kirsty Badenoch and Sayan Skandarajah
Lines that lead / Footsteps that follow: Alberto Ponis / Kirsty Badenoch / Dr Jonathan Prior / David Heymann / Sam Coulton / Paul Kolling / 3RW Arkitekter / Richard John Seymour
Forensic reconstructions: Peter Wilson / Aisling O’Carroll / Dr Izabela Wieczorek/ Francesca Benedetto / Mallory Burrell / Pui Quan Choi
Worlds that whisper / Lands that lie: Madelon Vriesendorp / Saskia Olde Wolbers / Melissa McCarthy / Mira Sanders / Peter Baldwin / Dana Burdman / Dr Penelope Haralambidou
Retracing familiar ground: Charles Robert Cockerell / Zaha Hadid / Doug Specht / Sayan Skandarajah / Nat Chard / Sean Steed / Dr Christopher Fry / Erika Brandl-Mouton
Guides for getting lost: Guy Debord / ScanLAB / Eloise Maltby Maland / Llew Watkins / Sapna Marfatia/ Charnjeev Kang
Afterward: Keranie Theodosiou
The publication was launched in 2021, with support from LAHP and Drawing Matter.
A visual-textual journey through the “Land Lines” workshop, hosted at Drawing Matter in February 2025.
To mark the passing of Alberto in Autumn 2024, we traced their footsteps and fingerprints from London to Sardinia and back. Working with Ponis’ pathway drawings in the Drawing Matter archive alongside geological maps of London and Sardinia, we drew time-and-space connections. We embarked on drawing “walks” together, exploring ideas of drawing-as-listening, and observing-as-designing. The workshop was embodied, involving physical as well as metaphorical walks, and drawing at 1:1. We worked with originals from the Drawing Matter Collection – the Ponis’ original drawings, and John Ruskin’s rock collection.
Limited edition copies available for purchase here
