During each Long Walk, I lead 50 participants on a 4-day, 50-mile trek from the city of Seattle through the suburbs, farmlands, and forests of King County.
I devised methods for poetic exchange among the participants, improvised campsites that doubled as stages for each day’s (un)scripted interactions and invited chefs to provide meals sourced in theme and substance from trail-side farms. Additionally, I commissioned fellow artists to make work with the Long Walkers and trail-side communities, invited scholars to give talks, and published Long Walk Survival Guides that included essays about local history, plant guides, and native myths.
The Long Walk grew out of Trails Project, a collaboration with Stokley Towles and Paul Rucker, sponsored by 4Culture and King County Parks.
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Trekking the Tolt Pipeline Trail
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Route map
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, 2011, Emilia Kennedy gives a talk on "The Meaning of Landscape"
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Archival Ink Print – Event Documentation
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Event Documentation
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Needs project
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Mobile Seltzer Unit
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Fallsm, Formal Dinner
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls,Todd Shalom giving sound tour at dusk.
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Rebecca Cummin’s Space Needle Sun Dial
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Eric Steen’s Beer’s Made by Walking
The Long Walk, 2010 – 2012, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Harvesting at Ox Bow Farm and writing loves notes to future farmers Market Shoppers
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, Archival Ink Print – Event Documentation (photo by long walker David White)
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, 2011, Sarah Kavage, Braid, site specific installation
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, 2012, Jenny Asarnow, Sammamish River Story Line, Participatory audio tour
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, 2012, Mid-point Mash-up poster
The Long Walk, 4-day walk, 45 miles, 50 people, Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, 2010, Walkers on the Snoqualmie River Trail
