Kailash Kora, 2007

“No walk, no work,” says Hamish Fulton, who calls himself a “walking artist.” These simple statements encapsulate this artist’s approach, according to which every work he executes can only unfold from direct contact with nature, begun through the simple action of walking. Born and raised in England, rather than being influenced by the romantic tradition and by a concept of nature as “landscape,” as a static and contemplative image, Fulton found a source of inspiration in America, during a trip he took there in 1969, over the course of which he traversed stretches of the states of Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana. [...]