PROJECT SUMMARY:
The SLOW WALK FAST— Proxy Walk series was inspired by the relationship between the creative process and sobriety and my interest in walking as an art medium. In scope, the mechanics and process of performing this piece examine concepts of proxy and agency, one-to-one engagement through dialogue and intuitive speculation, and the visual representation of the temporal. Originally intended to target issues of addiction and sobriety, the purpose was extended to be more inclusive, to welcome participants with any topic of their choosing…Read more
Participant Request: “Success and Financial Stability with My Career Which is Also My Soul Purpose”
027.
‘pare back’
05.24.2022—4.5 miles - Quart Ridge and L.V. Yates Loop Phoenix Mountain Preserve, Arizona
Participant Request: “Selling My Photo Art, Me Personally & Letting Go of Negative Beliefs”
026.
‘production | reproduction’
05.11.2022—3.1 miles - Cat's Peak Loop Via Blevins Trail Usery Mountain Regional Park, Mesa, Arizona
Participant Request: “Dealing With Unsustainable Levels of Stress and Empowering Myself and My Family”
025.
‘ecotone’
05.03.2022—2.6 miles - Lower Salt River Trail - Tonto National Forest, Phon D Sutton Recreation Area
Participant Request: “Best Way to Heal From Cancer Using Conventional Medicine and Natural Remedies Combined”
024.
‘Restoration, reclamation & recreation’
04.25.2022—5.4 miles - Tolleson Wetlands - Tres Rios Wetlands
Participant Request: “General Insight With Attention To Career and Finance”
023.
‘Break Routine, Reform Goods’
04.18.2022—4.1 miles - Javelina to Pima Wash and Beverly Canyon Loop, 04-20-22—2.2 miles - Warpaint Loop - South Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Expansion, Fun, Connection To ALL That Is and My True Self”
022.
‘Sensual Patience & Presence’
04.12.2022—3.8 miles - Ridge and Granite Trail Loop - Tonto National Forest 
Participant Request: “Job, Relationship and General Insight”
021.
‘Training: Preparation’
04.07.2022—Long + Technical Trail Loop Estrella Mountain Regional Park 
Participant Request: “General Insight About Career”
020.
‘raise vibe to level up’
03.15.2022—Goldmine Trail to San Tan to Moonlight Trail Loop San Tan Mountain Regional Park 
Participant Request: “The Best Year of My Life”
019.
‘following natural flow’
02.28.2022—Pima Wash Trail to West Loop
South Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “General Insight To Help Me Make a Decision”
018.
‘Devotional Time Drawing Resources’
02.22.2022—Marco De Niza, Midlife Crisis, and Young Man Trails Loop
South Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “The Best Way To Materialize My Dream Job and Fulfill My Purpose”
017.
‘Mind the Gap & Elder-Influence’
02.08.2022—Lost Dog Wash Trail to Ringtail Loop Trail
McDowell Sonoran Preserve 
Participant Request: “Making a House a Home”
016.
‘BASE, BALANCE & PRUDENCE’
11.20.2021—Desert Classic, Secret, Lower Corona Trails Loop
South Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “How to Breakout Professionally”
015.
‘What provides will flourish with focus’
07.162021—StoneyMountain Loop
Phoenix Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Open To the Message of the Trail”
014.
‘Singular & Extravagate’
05.21.2021—L.V. Yates to Charles Christansen (Trail #8 to #100)
Phoenix Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Creative Enterprise”
013.
‘PROCREANT, Sage & Levee’
04.20.2021—Noso, Channel, Spillway, Cat Peak Pass & Blevins Trail
Usery Mountain Regional Park 
Participant Request: “Art, Job, Money, Sustenance, Soul”
012.
‘It’s About the work,
Not You’
04.12.2021—Ridgeline & Beverly Canyon Loop
S. Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Reconnect With My Passion to Actively Pursue My Best Health”
011.
‘Sustainability Recharge’
03.23.2021—Veteran’s Oasis Loop Veteran’s Oasis Park 
Participant Request: “What is Nature’s Message to Me?”
010.
‘Was & Will Be’
03.20.2021—Dynamite Horse Trail San Tan Mountain Region Park 
Participant Request: “Everything Seems Fine, But It's Not. Is it Me?”
009.
‘Surprise Detour, Better way’
03.17.2021—South Mountain Loop South Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Overcome By the Needs of Others”
008.
‘if i were you… but i’m not’
03.07.2021—Hawes Ridge Loop Tonto National Forest 
Participant Request: “Procrastination— The Challenge To Get Started and Get Going”
007.
‘DREAMY DAM SETTLeMent’
03.02.2021—Trail 220 & 100 Loop Phoenix Mountain Preserve 
Participant Request: “Achievements—the Process of Accomplishing Them and Feeling the Contentedness”
006.
‘Nestled legacy’
02.26.2021—Desert Foothills Loop
South Mountain Preserve
Participant Request: “Ideal Balance of Obligations, Priorities and Output”
005.
‘Attn: Interface’
02.22.2021—Water Ranch Trail Gilbert Riparian Preserve
Participant Request: “Full Expression of Divine Feminine, Sensuality & Sexuality”
004.
‘hard relish’
02.11.2021—Freedom Trail Phoenix Mountain Preserve
Evolution 1.0
[Artist Reflection]
In the book WALKING ART PRACTICE, Ernesto Pujol talks about walking as a means of shedding, of ‘releasing unnecessary, visible and invisible baggage’ and declares, “Walking is psychic editing” (p 17).
This project of walking on behalf of others amplifies this shedding idea, requiring a level of detachment from ‘self’. As proxy, I am by definition embodying another’s interest as I perform a given walk on their behalf. To do this, I have to set aside my own interests for the time being.
Pujol also suggests that a walking practice in service to others should be performed by a walker free of ‘unresolved life back home’ and that “the best way to engage a path is when the walker is already healed and capable of healing others” (p 21). I cannot claim either, but am continually making progress on both fronts. My hope is that these walks impact a person’s target issue in a way that feels beneficial.
Participant Request: “Self-Expression Is My Well-Paying & Fulfilling Career”
003.
‘Gateway’
01.22.2021—Gateway Loop Trail
McDowell Sonoran Preserve
Participant Request: “I Want To Win the Top Reward in My Class”
002.
‘glitter up’
11.17.2020—Double Butte Trail
Papago Park
Participant Request: “I Want To ‘Want To’ Quit Smoking”
001.
‘Coming Home’
10.20.2020—Warpaint Loop
South Mountain Preserve
