Travelling west. A little later -
Dance buskers near Oxford Circus. Traffic was slow, their music was loud and their performance exuberant. The crowd were loving it, especially the mock-ballet bit.
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2014 Update
The travelwriting continues - it has moved not just from the page to fabric, but from flat fabric into useful items - bags, pouches, and tool rolls for carrying your portable necessities with you. See the Travel Lines London collection on its new website - www.travel-lines-london.co.uk.
Why a wiggly line?
The idea for "journey lines" may have been triggered by the daily "process drawings" of artists like Marcia Hafif and Bridget Riley. I started drawing while riding on the underground after seeing some work by Lucy Skaer that consisted of repeated motifs filling a large sheet of paper ... trying to make some motifs of my own.
This evolved into an intention to simply draw a line that was as long as possible, on any bus, train, or tube journey.
Part of my project is to document these journeys on this blog – much as land artists like Richard Long document their journeys to have a record of the ephemeral work. But the journey lines are not themselves a documentation; they are a way of marking time, recording and making permanent the duration of the all-too-forgettable daily journey.
Drawing these lines is a way of being present in the daily journey - and of using "wasted" time.
Focusing on this drawing/writing gives a breathing space, away from everyday demands, yet part of the everyday routine, and a way of attending to the "disregarded everyday".
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- King's Cross to Finsbury Park
- Liverpool Street to King's Cross
- Liverpool Street Station (Underground)
- On the buses
- Finsbury Park to Covent Garden
- Kensal Rise to Crouch Hill - on a 1920 map
- Gospel Oak to Crouch Hill
- Kensal Rise to Gospel Oak
- Crouch Hill to Kensal Rise
- King's Cross to Finsbury Park
- Finsbury Park to Euston
- New Oxford Street to Oxford Circus
- Along Oxford Street
- Finsbury Park to Holborn
- Kensal Rise to Crouch Hill
- Overground - new train
- Finsbury Park - Museum of London - Notting Hill Gate
- Crouch Hill Station
- Queens Park to Euston
- Crouch Hill to Kensal Rise
- South Kensington to Finsbury Park
- Finsbury Park to Princes Gate
- Routemaster
- Leicester Square to Finsbury Park
- Finsbury Park to Holborn
- Leicester Square station
- Pimlico to Finsbury Park
- Finsbury Park to Pimlico
- Two at once
- King's Cross to Finsbury Park
- Holborn station - escalators
- Finsbury Park to Russell Square
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About Me
- Margaret Cooter
- I'm currently a student on the MA Book Arts course at Camberwell College of Art, London.
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