ABSTRACT
The Day of the Dead walks are communal creative walking whereby participants can experience being held within the existing framework of the Mourning Stone Project, and its strategies for creative engagement, whilst experimenting with their own more portable structure – in memory of somebody, or something, lost. Pausing to draw and document in situ provided moments of deep connection with the landscape and supported this non-verbal articulation of some of the more fugitive feelings associated with grief. Creative walking has the potential to pull the different threads of materiality, physicality, movement, landscape-based metaphor and art making into an integrated approach whereby “Sights, sounds, touch and tone can reveal veiled emotions and can tap into otherwise inaudible questions about living and dying”.
