RANDOM WALKS

Accordion book series

Walking VII 2015
5.5” x 105”

Part of the exhibition Passages: Walking in Contemporary Art an exhibition of artworks on walking — as artistic subject, creative practice, socio-political protest, and performance.

Drawn from Carleton College collections, the Walker Art Center Library, and national galleries, the show presents diverse examples of how something as simple and ordinary as walking has figured into modern and contemporary art as both movement and metaphor.

Walking V
2014
5.5" x 105" 
mixed media on paper

Walking X (v.1, 2014-2018)
(Boston to Taipei– an instructional walking journal–v. 1)
8.25” x 65” (5 extended lengths of 8.25” x 65” )
Collage on paper
An album of directions and instructions.
Google walking directions from Boston to Taipei consists of 2052 lines of instructions, 94 printed pages, 11749 miles with a travel time of 155 days and 5 hours. Marvelously absurd at times, kayaking from Seattle to Hawaii for example, it is  a humorous glitch in our information feed.

Crossings (detail)  2015
8' x 16'
string, map pins, paper, duralar on wall

In the exhibition Proximities,  several of the works in the Random Walk series Wu uses her body to track time and space, and marking her movements, location, geography, and topography. “Crossings” (2015), is a site-specific wall drawing that records a walk completed by the artist throughout Boston. Her recorded movements grow exponentially as she works directly on the wall. The dot and line drawing is made of construction paper and fishing line and creates a rhizome-like network.

A Field Guide to Getting Lost
3:57' HD video installation, deconstructed pages from Rebecca Solnit's book of the same title.

Random Walks and Chance Encounters
Minnesota Museum of American Art

Paths 3-4-11
96" x 42"
Black paper, fishing string on wall  

DoReMi 2009
ink, graphite on canvas    
12" x 12"
Mapping urban sounds and urban walks