Cracks in the Pavement

This collaborative illustration project was designed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the context of increased levels of anxiety, isolation, restrictions and the near-total digitisation of everyday life, I was keen to develop a project that foregrounded materiality, embodiment, and being-in-common.

In this project 24 East London residents walked on various shared routes over a period of six months. It resulted in five physical, collaborative maps of different areas of Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Islington. Each map was generated by four to five participants who walked along the same route at different times, annotating their thoughts, ideas and observations on a shared A1-sized sheet of paper that was passed from one walker to the next.

The project has now been donated to the Hackney Archives.

The maps were donated to Hackney Archives, where they are now held in their permanent collection.