An Open Field
2014
An Open Field is a participatory walking project and online text-based artwork
Made from a series of unfolding landscapes, both real and virtual, An Open Field is a participatory walking project and online text-based artwork.
It’s cityscape and it’s buildings and it’s concrete. It’s the air and the light. Scrub and gorse and oak. Grey, sideways rain and the grey flat sea. Squirrels and sledges and sandwiches. A broken nose. It’s moorhen red, and ancient ash and great wide skies.
Created over the course of a year with people across the UK – from a teenage girl on Lindisfarne to a grandfather in London – An Open Field is what’s with us when we walk, it’s where we are when we talk, what’s not quite forgotten and what’s lost and found.
A contemplation of our connectedness to nature and our sense of wellbeing, the project explores how deeply we know ourselves in relation to the places where we live and where we walk. It celebrates the unique and diverse habitats that make up the UK, and the people and other things who live in them.
Where are you most at home?
Meet the Team
Writing & Design: Luke Pell
Graphic Design: Valle Walkley
Website Design: Kathie Wu
With Special Thanks To
Laurence Rose and the authors of the State of Nature report