Graphic Interlude
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This graphic interlude features a selection of photographs of artworks which can illustrate the topic of this issue: “The Cultures and Politics of Leisure in the British Isles and the United States”.
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1British artist Tim Knowles indirectly reflects upon leisure through the idea of drifting and chance, notably the dynamics of ink flowing, boat sailing and men and women walking.
1. Leisure: chance and idleness?
2. All play and no work?
3. Left to one’s own devices
Tim Knowles, Path of Least Resistance, 2013

A public event where participants were instructed to walk directed by the landscape and gravity. “Walk like water running”.
http://timknowles.co.uk/Work/PathofLeastResistance/tabid/515/Default.aspx
Tim Knowles, Where the wind blows - Maiden Voyage [Hestercombe Gardens], 2017
![Tim Knowles, Where the wind blows - Maiden Voyage [Hestercombe Gardens], 2017](docannexe/image/1266/img-5-small480.jpg)
A sailing vessel that travels wherever the wind blows it with no way to steer it.
Tim Knowles, Windwalk – Five walks from Charing Cross, 2008

5 Channel video, mixed media object and wall drawing.
List of illustrations
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Title | Tim Knowles, Ink on Paper Landscape, Corner Concertina #3 [detail], 2016. Ink on Paper |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-1.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 132k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Tree Drawing - Ginko [detail], 2012. Ink on Paper and C-type prints |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-2.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 220k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Tree Drawing - Hawthorn on easel #1, 2005 |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-3.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 404k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Path of Least Resistance, 2013 |
Caption | A public event where participants were instructed to walk directed by the landscape and gravity. “Walk like water running”. |
Credits | http://timknowles.co.uk/Work/PathofLeastResistance/tabid/515/Default.aspx |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-4.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 204k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Where the wind blows - Maiden Voyage [Hestercombe Gardens], 2017 |
Caption | A sailing vessel that travels wherever the wind blows it with no way to steer it. |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-5.jpg |
File | image/jpeg, 396k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Windwalk – Five walks from Charing Cross, 2008 |
Caption | 5 Channel video, mixed media object and wall drawing. |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-6.png |
File | image/png, 448k |
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Title | Tim Knowles, Mass Windwalk Sydney, 2013 |
Caption | Participatory event with smart phone app tracking. |
URL | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/docannexe/image/1266/img-7.png |
File | image/png, 828k |
References
Electronic reference
Tim Knowles, “Graphic Interlude”, Angles [Online], 5 | 2017, Online since 01 November 2017, connection on 23 March 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1266; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1266
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