Walking and Noticing: Embodiment, Observation, and Art with Laura Rudkin-Miniot
A Community Practice Group on Kinship Circle
Weekly Invitations are posted on Sunday evenings—April 20 to May 25 via Kinship Circle
We invite Kinship members to join us for a community-wide practice group and collaborative exploration via the Kinship Circle platform. As we begin our 2025 call for engagement Elementals and this spring’s focus on Air.
When we walk we move through air. The densely packed molecules of our bodies move through the loosely packed molecules of the air around us. When trails, sidewalks, or roads are cleared, they leave us openings through which to move. As we move, our bodies take in air, use air, and expel air. In this online Kinship activity, we will focus on that movement and exchange in terms of self, setting, and time. In a series of prompts, participants will be invited to take a walk while noticing aspects of both their bodies and their environments. The prompts will come from the growing literatures on Forest Bathing and Walking Art.
All invitations will begin with a walk and those walks can be of any distance or difficulty. Suggestions for sharing will include photographs each week, but invitations to pair images with numbers, words, shapes, and symbols will also be offered. Resources on Forest Bathing and examples of Walking Art will be posted each week.
Kinship Circle members: click here to get started.
Non-members: click here to join Kinship Circle (scholarships are always available if needed).
Need help? Email us at info@kinship.photography.
Laura Rudkin-Miniot is a trail photographer and walking artist based in Asheville, NC. She is exploring Southern Appalachia and photography following a lengthy public health career that focused on place and health. Her methods integrate elements of hiking, forest bathing, photography, and graphic arts to create “portraits” of trails and parks. She is a certified forest therapy guide.
Her photographs have been exhibited at the Madison County Arts Council in Marshall, NC, The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts in Highlands, NC, The Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin, NC, and The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC. In April 2025 she will be exploring walking art in multiple media as a Goodall Fellow at Wofford College’s Environmental Studies Center.
