SLOW WAVE TRAIL

Eleanor Cully Boehringer / Jorge Boehringer

20th - 25th June 2022 10am - 5pm The Bound, Whitley Bay

‘Leave no trace’ is a motto for wilderness ethics so often quoted that it has even found itself in a corporate logo used to sell plastic outdoor equipment. Slow Wave Trail presents another take, bridging worlds both urban and rural. Slow Wave Trail developed from treading lightly up and down the Newcastle and Northumberland coast and across the Scottish Borders. Since moving to Newcastle upon Tyne in January 2021, Eleanor and Jorge have been exploring these landscapes on foot, observing how trails and time unfold around the walker. When turning back and observing the way they have past, the walker finds they have left a trace: a trail of experiences through the landscape. On the other foot, facing forward, the environment leaves its traces on us; the walker moves through the landscape as through a hall of mirrors.

Jorge and Eleanor are interested in how these traces find their way into our senses of time, into our perceptions of the environment, and the role that attention to the edges of our senses, in particular to listening, play in this. Slow Wave Trail brings insights from our walks: ecologies of feeling, thinking, and dialogue with and within our environment. In response to the invitation to create an exhibition at The Bound bookshop, we have turned our experiences outside in: upstairs, we have found, left behind, or incised an exhibition of traces, some heavy indeed, but most very fleeting.