She Walked to Sculpt, Interlope, Wrap, Lick & Squeeze Into Space

This collaboration of images and words began as an online exchange during the UK’s third lockdown period in early 2021, responding directly to the ‘New Poetics of Space’ conference (Angelaki and Jeffery, 2020). At home Hind and Qualmann pondered on a heap of words that related to the places they intended to walk as soon as the stay-at-home restrictions lifted. The words: erosion, desire, planning, plotting, fear, cold, intention, discomfort, conjuring, and sensation were prompts to think creatively and imaginatively about the sites planned for performance, as a provocation on bodies, language, and the place of women in the natural and urban environment.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism on [In Press], available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114521