This site (currently in early stages of construction) is about Richard Keating’s socially and environmentally engaged walking, drawing, making, writing and doing practice.
At its heart is a hopeful encounter and entanglement with place.
“Life is lived in a zone in which earthly substances and aerial media are brought together in the constitution of beings which, in their activity, participate in weaving the textures of the land. Here, organisms figure not as externally bounded entities but as bundles of interwoven lines of growth and movement, together constituting a meshwork in fluid space. The environment, then, comprises not the surroundings of the organism but a zone of entanglement.” – Bindings against Boundaries: Entanglements of Life in an Open World. Tim Ingold, 2008.
And a sense that landscapes are the interface between ecological and cultural forces; our surroundings still becoming and also holding memories both remembered and ancient.
From Walking the Land’s May’s First Friday Walk, 2026.
Assemblage of drawings made on Walking the Land’s April First Friday Walk and as a participant in their “Walking in Pairs” project.