ABSTRACT
Picture two children returning from a romp which takes them across fields and hills, along a stretch of beach, through a dense forest, and on back home along rocky tracks and well-worn paths. From a bird's eye perspective their route is a terrestrial line of flight wriggling its way through a wilderness below. Their travels are punctuated by a staccato beat of stop-and-go as they take every opportunity to add to a stock of treasures gathered along the way. How might these adventurers tell their tales of travelling? Perhaps they will extract from their pockets a collection of flowering things and sweet-smelling grasses, odd bits of bird's eggs or moth's wings, snail shells and skipping stones which will become part of their story's unravelling. Back home on the kitchen floor a map of a journey may be dramatically drawn - not with the usual cartographer's tools, but with objects and stories, artefacts and narratives. Through their attentive presentation and excited commentary, the children not only describe their circuitous route, but illustrate it, qualify it, prove its material existence while also emphasising - even exaggerating - certain of its more memorable aspects.
