Mental Landscape: An Art Walk with Liz Crisman

Directions and Items for Mental Landscape Walk

• 10 Ground stakes (golf tee's work great)
• Stopwatch or Timer
• 3 different colors of Yarn (make sure you can tell the colors apart)
• Blade to cut yarn
• Camera to document process
• Music to listen to...

Total Time: One hour

1. Take your items + place in a travel bag
2. 10 Mins: Scout out a large flat area to create your landscape (a park is best)
3. 10 Mins: Take your first four ground stakes and find a starting point. Walk straight 30 paces,turn right walk 30 paces, etc until you have made a box. This is representing your brain.
4. Surround the square with yarn to make an outline
5. 10 Mins: Place remaining ground stakes INSIDE your square, this is an organic exerise, where ever you want to place them.
6. 30 Mins x taking 10 mins with each color of your yarn

• Wrap one color of the yarn around the stakes inside your grid
• You can wrap + connect to your outlined points if you want
• Let your mind make a natural pattern

7. Once the 30 mins. is up, step outside and document your mental landscape

My buddy Andrew came along and filmed the walk with me. (See film above) All in all it was a really neat project. I enjoyed looking at the end result and doing some research on the patterns I made. Each string to me during this walk was defenintly tied to certain emotions I was feeling.