on art walking.

The thrill of going on a long walk with the intention of sketching something, somewhere along the way, that’s the classic artist vibe. For hundreds of years, before cameras, that was pretty much the whole job of a scientist it seems: go walk around and draw nature while you wrote your observations in a journal. Nowadays, sketches of hadron colliders and quantum entangled electrons are not quite as sketch-able as say, the stages of pinecone deployment or the lifecycle of the blue breasted woodpecker, but that just leaves sketching nature for the rest of us humble artists, doesn’t it?