The first Relay walk took place at SALTA, and here was the spot where the walk began. and it became a little hub for others, unbeknownst to me, as I was walking.
In the Summer of 2013, I conducted twenty-five traveling conversations with artist/practitioners in a specific area of the East Bay. This is an area which is the valley space between three mountains: Mount Tamalpais, Mount San Bruno, and Mount Diablo. Several years previously, Gilles Marin had explained to me that this area was a node, as if the valley space one finds on the human form for Acupuncture and in Chinese energetics, so too the land had zones of potency. It was a region to explore, and what better way than felting conversations and traversing the territory with artistic companions?
This chapter was called Relay Encounters. These conversations offered intriguing perspectives movement, language, and landscape, and set up an ephemeral web of relations. There was a specific format for the conversations, which involved finding an anchor, a roaming mutual interview/conversation, (individually, I was spontaneously tracking forms and pathways through the traveling), and then ending with an integration-mapping. Each interview was archived through audio and photos.
