Unfortunately pretty shattered by the day of the festival but did use “mother nature’s drawing machine” to invite people to make drawings around the festival site and made some sound recording. Interested in capturing the aesthetic of the event and some of the ideas behind it.
Most people I approached were happy to join in and draw and liked the machine itself, on the whole people were amused by it. I didn’t lead specific walks, just hung around with the machine, walked with it and engaged people as I came across them.
A surprising aspect of the “performance” was my “invisibility” amongst so many parents with their young children in similar buggies to the one I’d converted to the drawing machine.
Took hours to dismantle the festival. Really felt as if I was doing too much at the expense of making the most of the opportunity to make a drawing. However, this is the nature of co-researching with communities.
