Drawn by H (Eng) | mccortes

Drawn by H is a drawing resulting from the displacements of my body: starting today, May 9th, in Bogotá, it will end on June 9th, in Helsinki.

My displacement makes the drawing and is the place of thought.
The medium is my body. Who is the agent?
The process happens through time. Will it end?
The drawing will have different qualities depending on the speed of my movement.

Diary:

May 9, 2023. Location: 4.645947 N,74.055727 W. Speed: 0 km/h. My company: Abdul (my cat), the sun, the sound of a motorcycle, the smell of an orange.
May 10: Location: 4.646175 N, 74.055634W. Speed: 0 km/h. My company: Abdul (my cat), clouds, the sound of a truck, a distant hammering, a glass of water, the memory of Apollo.
May 11: Location: 4.864706 N, 74.074690 W. Speed: 0 km. My company: my computer, dandelions, the sound of a plane flying from south to north, the concern for the text I need to write, a question: where is the "North"?
May 12: Location: 4.864538 N, 74.074686 W. Speed: 0 km. My company: my glasses to see up close, my cell phone, the song of a hummingbird, the cloudy sky, the question: what was the password to access the website of the project?
May 13: Location: Walk from: 4.864601 N, 74.074676 W to 4.873576 N, 74.076937 W. Speed: 2.5 km/h. My company: Andrés, the dust-covered leaves on the road, the flowering eucalyptus tree, the clouds on the horizon, the fallen curuba bush, the encounter with strangers, the smell of the mountain, watching time's passing.
May 14: Location: Hike from: 4.655869 N, 74.0685049 W to 4.6155869 N, 74.0685049 W; drive from 4.6155869 N, 74.0685049 W to 4.645773 N, 74.055672 W. My company: Andrés and Abdul, the moving clouds over the mountain, Beethoven in the orchard, the radish harvest, the scent of the future and Marcel Proust saying that the future exists only in our minds: ... parce que comme l'avenir est ce qui n'existe encore que dans notre pensée, il nous semble encore modifiable par l' intervention in extremis de notre volonté.
May 15: Location: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 2 km/h. My company: La Vieja Creek, the cold water, the sound of the creek in the trunk of a tree, the balancing asanas in movement, and the thoughts about the landscape.
May 16: Location: Walk from 4.645856 N, 74.055731 W to 4.651608 N, 74.050712 W. Speed: 2 km/h. My company: the eastern moon, the dawn, a pooping dog, the creek and all that goes by, Abdul's dream, the parsley sauce, the grocery in my hand, thinking in the indeterminate, the processual, the open, and chatting with Margarita.
May 17: Location: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 0 km/h. My company: Abdul, Andrés, Chepe, Abdul's Leucogen vaccine, the taste of coffee, the sensation of the drawing in my body, the sound of a passing motorcycle on the street, Thoreau's thoughts asking for a living Earth, which would be like a living poetry that is like the leaves of a tree, which precede the flowers and fruits. Not a fossil earth, but a living Earth.
May 18: Displacement from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.634068 N, 74.083256 W (to the Leopold Rother Museum) and from 4.634068 N, 74.083256 W to 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 25 Km/h. My company: my hair from white to red, the cold water shower, the bodies on the ground, the anthropomorphic floor, the green of the university campus, Andrés, Ana María, Zenaida, Amparo, other professors and students, and more strangers.
May 19: Walk from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.650865 N, 74.049414 W. Speed: 2.3 km/h.My company: Luz Maria and her lung in my mind, friends having breakfast at La Vieja creek that are very distracting and I can't do yoga, Alejandra, Jerónimo, the idea that the contact with nature allows me to get in touch with very remote times that shape and become part of my existence in an unconscious way.
May 20: Ride from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.67163 N, 74.01663 W Speed: 50 km/h. My company: Andrés, the blueness of the mountains, the sight of the Tominé reservoir, an elongated parcel, the taste of corn and guacamole, the souvenir of a road in the mountain.
May 21: Displacement from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.703083 N, 74.048876 W. Speed: 50 km/h. My company: Andrés, shrimp, squid, salmon, tilapia, crabs, sardines, the memory of the paths in the Chaleche area, the view of the Tominé reservoir, the proximity of the sacred lagoon of Guatavita, the colors of the flowers in the meadow, the Siecha River and the dream of possible sunsets.
May 22: Displacement from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.654675 N, 74.054088 W. Speed: 2.4 km/h. My company: Andrés, the smell of the drizzle, the fear of the slippery floor, the sun in the window, the Popocatépetl ash in my mind, and the antique sounds as part of the historical documents.
May 23: Displacement from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.649063 N, 74.060479 W. Speed: 2.5 km/h. My Company: Abdul, Alejandra, Emma, thinking in the landscape, and my conversation with Tim Ingold when he refers to the reciprocity of experience and says "I am my walking and my walking walks me (...) I carry and at the same time I am carried. I live and I am lived".
May 24: Location: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 0 km/h. My Company: Andrés, Abdul, Daniela, Mark, Lou, the happiness of seeing on the page the logo I designed for the European Set Theory Society, the lack of water due to a broken pipe in the building, Don Álvaro the plumber of the Chaleche aqueduct and the native beech trees with their red wine leaves and pink flowers.
May 25: Displacement from 4.645947 N, 74.055727 W to 4.659309 N, 74.052147 W Speed: 2.2 km/h. My company: Abdul, the rain, the blooming orchid, the flooded O'Higgins Park, the visit to Our Lady that unties the knots, and the question about the landscape as an entangled living space.
May 26: Displacement from 4.645947 N, 74.055727 W to 4.9328674 N, 73.8248785 W. Speed: 50 km/h. My company: Abdul, Luz María and her lung, my aunt Magda, Ana María, my grandmother, my aunt Cecilia, the text about the landscape, the Montecillo, the cabin in Guatavita, the sunset and the clouds at the Tominé reservoir.
May 27 and 28:Displacement from 4.645947 N, 74.055727 W to 4.9328674 N, 73.8248785 W to 4.8647056 N, 74.0746904 W to 4.9591380 N, 73.8100360 W to 4.645947 N, 74.055727 W. My hand is tired. My body is tired. I look at the Tominé reservoir and the color of the water makes me feel cold. My company: Andrés, the horses, and the mountain among the clouds. The challenge is to understand the connection between the words and my actions. To make time go slower.
May 29: Location: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 0 km/h. My company: Andrés, Abdul, the idea that drawing begins at the gaze and becomes hands, legs, movement, displacement, gliding, sliding, rubbing, sound, navigation, circulation, travel, journey, path, trace, footprint, line, mark, grammatical sign, ....................................................................................................
May 30: Location: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 0 km/h.My company: Abdul, Anatilde, Yoli, the tuna salad, writing, deciphering, and trip planning.
May 31: Displacement: from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.638204 N, 74.084729 W to 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W. Speed: 20 km/h. My company: The wind in the park, the happiness of having the Mapping Traces book finally on paper!!!!. Don Alvaro's teachings, the cryptic language of the legality, the necessity of enriching reality with words.
June 1: Displacement: from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 to La Vieja Creek. Speed: 2.3 km/h. My compañy: Carito, Abdul, Andrés, Anatilde, the noise of a passing car, the tranquility of a dream, my mother's recipe for chicken with hunter's sauce, rice with turmeric, and François Cheng who says that our life acquires meaning, and direction in contact with beauty.
June 2: Displacement: 4.651854 N, 74.051380 to La Vieja Creek. Speed: 2 km/h. My company: the thinking on drawing, planning the trip, the sunset light, Fernando, María Elsa, and Abdul.
June 3: Displacement: back and forth inside the head. Speed: the speed of ideas km/h. My company: Andrés, Abdul, questions about the materiality of this drawing: layers of thought, invisible and ephemeral lines, and incisions in space.
June 4: Displacement: from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 to 4.654651 N, 74.054130 W. My company: Jaime, Monica, Teo, Abdul, Andrés, the vertigo of knowing that in a few days this drawing will be finished, the drawing of an inverted map, the need to make marks on the map and the organization of Abdul's care.
June 5: Displacement: from the head to the computer, from the computer to the head. My company: Andrés, Alejandra, Mario Enrique, Abdul, the impossible landscape and the impossibility of drawing.
June 6 and 7: Displacement: from 4.651854 N, 74.051380 W to 4.701047 N, 74.145785 W. Speed: 30 km/h, and from 4.701047 N, 74.145785 W to 49.007840 N, 2.551029 W; speed: from 0 to 950 km/h; from 49.007840 N, 2.551029 E to 60.318106 N, 24.949975 E. Speed: 0 to 950 km/h. My company: two suitcases, this drawing, the concern to get everything ready, the trip planning, the uncertainty of the route, the food, the lock up with 399 persons and then with 99 persons.
June 8: Displacement: from 60.17.7247 N, 24.920554 E to 60.169905 N, 24.938220 E. Speed: 3 km/h. My company: Andres` birthday, the Baltic Sea, Juliette, Jouko and Töölo Towers.
June 9: Displacement: from 60.17.7247 N, 24.920554 E, to 60.169557 N, 24.950362 E. Speed: 20 km/h. End of this drawing. My company: Andrés, the view of Taivalluoto, the photos of Fred Sandback`s sculpture, the blue of the sea, Juliette and Jouko.

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