Desire Lines explores space, place, land, home, and our relationships to them. It takes inspiration from maps and illustrative processes, as well as incorporating painterly marks and text. Recounting two walks now occupying the same material space, it explores these key concepts through the lens of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The walks consider how geographical spaces and those who travelled them have changed, who is allowed (has the right) to travel them now, how we form relationships with space to build place, and the importance of being able to move through spaces to do so. Desire Lines can be explored with similar movements to those used when (un)folding, reading and manoeuvring a map, whilst inviting us to think through our relationships with spaces and how land ownership, collective use, abuse and memory influence them.
Isobel Richards 