After printing out some text for my PhD, I was struck by the reproduction of the above image. The sloper on the boomerang boulder, the crux of my recent attempts to traverse the boulder.I used the image to illustrate the role of the chalk marks as trace or residue of performance. I was also drawing…
Category: art/bouldering research
Porthleven studio
Porthleven studio, art and training, filmed by Graham Gaunt in 2013.
drawings
A1 drawings, charcoal, tape, crayon, tippex and graphite. Submitted as part of my PhD research. Made on a trip to Fontainebleau in 2013.
Headtorch session, Australia boulder, Clodgy Point.
My intention was to use the light from the headtorch to leave a trace or path across the rock face. I’d seen some other examples of this technique being used both in and out of a climbing context. I wanted to firstly experience bouldering at night and see how useful a headtoch would be in…
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