Hailing from Skomer Island, Daffyda has devoted her artistic practice to land art. Many of her works are temporary, created and left in the wild. She was the first woman to walk at exactly 1.3 mph from Land’s End to Bristol (family issues meant she had to cut short a walk that had been supposed to end at Chester). Dafydda has also walked twice around the world, and the pair of flip-flops that she used for this mighty endeavour are on permanent display in her local museum in Byllwngwest.
”My work is about human existence. I try to embody the Welsh word qwest, which has no direct equivalent in English, but means something like a journey of over ten miles undertaken for obscure reasons.
“On my journeys I leave no damage, I spend a lot of time carefully making sure that every one of my footprints is destroyed and the land I have walked over is exactly as it was before I crossed it. This means my walking speed is very low. My latest project “Walking across my living room, several times” has allowed me to dispense with the worry of returning the carpet to a pristine condition and just focus on the steps.
”I hope that my work will encourage everyone to stand up and walk across the world. Or failing that, their living room.”
Dafydda’s art book “How to Walk across your living room by someone who has walked across their Living room”, will be available in a limited edition to her collectors before the summer.
