I walk landscapes. I make journeys. Landscape, journey: each is essentially a work of the imagination, brought into being by human interpretation and through the constructed languages of painting, poetry, photography and film. They are even more powerfully evoked in our memories. In art, travel – or more specifically the nature of journeying through specific landscapes – leads to the creation of individual narratives that describe personal transition, even a sort of metaphysical trauma. My images and writing describes being in a landscape as an empirical and also an objective experience: it offers an analysis of the familiar, banal and anonymous in the everyday environment, which, through walking and serial revisiting, creates images. These images can be perceived as material evidence of being there or, alternatively, as a record of an emotionally expressive experience, essentially about the walker’s state of being while involved in the act of travelling. www.peteday.co.uk
