Kel Portman

@KelArrowsmith
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Artist, lecturer, curator, co-founder of walking arts collective Walking the Land, independent researcher 
Cards, books & prints available http://artworks.eu.com/wordpress/project/books-and-publications

28th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 2893 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | cowslips scattered where tanks once drove | awaiting the song of skylarks

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku

///replaying.treating.variety

replaying old tales
treating each one with respect
such variety

#walking #walkinggartist #what3words, #stroud
@walctogether

27th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 2421 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | 3 graces ready to fall | late afternoon light struggles through new leaves

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///fortunes.endearing.lonely

sometimes fortunes change
endearing traits become lost
lonely nights result

#walking #walkinggartist #what3words, #stroud
@walctogether

26th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 47 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | petals are ready to fall | a moment of glory has nearly passed

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///smart.edge.retrieves

magpie's smart plumage
though close to the edge he still
retrieves old triumphs

#walking #walkinggartist #what3words, #stroud
@walctogether

25th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 1572 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | momento mori | an old orchard newly planted | blossom on new trees, mistletoe on old

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///sounds.oddly.moves

here, there are few sounds
an oddly quiet mid-morning
then a pheasant moves

#walking #walkingartist #what3words, #stroud
@walctogether

24th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 224 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | walls a palimpsest of past lives | stone offered a cold welcome to those who came to rest

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///chart.loopholes.complain

slow to chart progress
finding loopholes everywhere
pointless to complain

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether

23rd April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 2648 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | brook meanders | yellow tip butterflies browse on Ladies Smock

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///farmer.notes.hands
a farmer will smile
when given high value notes
hands trembling with joy

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether

22nd April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A garden walk of xxxxx paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | bluebells start to fade | a fallen tree gradually absorbed

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///play.fake.wrong

they like to play games
making statements so fake and
obviously wrong

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether

21st April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A garden walk of 62 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | momento mori | as one petal falls, another opens

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///broadens.token.move

as knowledge broadens
it's taken as a token
to simply move on

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether

20th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A garden walk of 43 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | buds of white lilac burst | blackbird finds an unfortunate newt

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///shorts.remake.irony

don't wear shorts, except
in an old movie remake
tinged with irony

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether

19th April 2026

A new daily work in progress
A walk of 14153 paces | in the space between time passing and time arriving | 1. beneath pillow mounds | 2. beneath Hetty Peglar's Tump | wild garlic blooms | limestone cracks

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///hawks.decays.entrust

while hawks soar above
woodland decays with die-back
none left to entrust

#walking #walkingartist #what3words #stroud
@walctogether