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On the Thursday night before we left, we invited everyone who had made a journey for us to come to the studio and see what everyone else had done, and what we had been doing. We also announced that we were inviting everyone to come to the May You Live In Interesting Times conference.

 

 
The studio
Flying kites. We saw people kite boarding, their routes across the beach really were controlled by the wind direction and wind speed. After approaching several of them we realised that if we wanted to put a gps on a kite we would have to learn to fly kites ourselves.

 

 

 
Day filming kite flying for new piece of work we've started developing.
Maura came by to tell us about her journey. Maura is part of artists group ointment and her route descripion is full of plants that she's seen on the way.
We filmed the gestures each person made telling us about their journey with the GPS. These gestures and stories add a depth and expression to the lines.

So that we could think about the sea, we went on a boat trip - it was a dolphin watch boat, we only saw one, even though there have been as many as 2000 dolphins in this area over the summer.

 
The waves were quite big, so to make the trip less choppy the boat went out to sea, heading into the waves.
 
A kiter called Robin who we met a few times at Poppit Sands agreed to hang a GPS device around his neck whilst he flew his kite from his board. His track is in blue, whilst ours is in red, we were just on foot.
Robin kite boarding

Ferwig school has a one room schoolhouse, and 8 pupils.

This is what happened when we went to do a mapping workshop,

and gave them all gps devices to use in the playground.
John Adam Lewis the local mayor called by to bring back the GPS he had been using to track his day, unfortunately he didnt get a chance to fly the airplane that he'd built to his meeting that day, so the track was all by road.
A local artist called Elizabeth Cox invited us and some of her friends to do a GPS drawing starting from her house and mapping St Dogmaels area.
 
Len came by to tell us about his GPS route, as he checked his lobster pots.

The fishing in this area is mainly for lobster, yet its almost impossible to find anywhere to eat or buy locally caught lobster.

This one is 70 years old, and was caught by Len Walters who is taking a GPS with him next time he goes fishing.

Linda describes her walk to work at the hospital, and why she walks home through the graveyard.

The waves, the coast, the weather.

Attempts to track the shape that each wave makes as it hits the shore. The point where it turns and ebbs.

 
 
Lined Stones

Visited the coracle museum in Cenarth.

On the way back to Cardigan we stopped of to meet a man who still makes coracles from coppiced willow, linen and tar. He invited us in and told us stories of coracle fishing in the river Teifi, flying and crashing microlights and how he crossed the Channel in a coracle to settle a bet in 1973.

 

An anenometer is a more accurate way of measuring windspeed.

 

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The wind was ever present, often coming in from the sea.

At Mwnt, small Thrift flowers on the headland constantly bobbing about, like markers of windstrength.
We attempted to make drawings to map their movement.

We noticed a parallel between our vertical relationshop to both the moon and the satellites. The moon controlling the tides, the gps subtley effecting where and how we were walking.

When we give a gps to someone it becomes a surrogate for us in a way. Whilst the walker can have a private walk, they are also sometimes purposefully showing us something, or recording something that they find important. It might be more about the person they walk with, or a landmark to put on the map, or an everyday journey to work and back. Having the GPS also gave people a different perspective on their own walks. In retelling the stories walkers had a very different reaction to the drawings they had made, from purposefully trying to walk in a spiral, or recognising a characterisitic bend in a road, through to entirely mistaking a whole journey, beliveing the map to be upside down.

The tides also had an effect on our walkers, some waiting for the tide to be at a specific height so that they could map a part of the coast that is regularly underwater, or to be able to go out on the sea.

 
The wooden bit is our studio