About

Helen Mirra
Nine years of slope-walking

In 2008 I found myself on a yearlong artist residency in Switzerland without a studio, and realized my way forward was in walking. Since then I’ve been engaged in an ongoing project in which daylong walks generate artworks and vice versa. Non-redundant repetition, change, and chance, have been underlying the overall project.

Bodhidharma is thought to have been a Buddhist monk who travelled from India to China in the 5th or 6th century. Part of the story is that he sat in a cave in meditation for nine years – in contrast to being caught up in words, …