Tracing Systems Phase One – Land Art

Location
Staunton Country Park, Hampshire

Duration
February–March 2026

Materials
Material found on site at Staunton Country Park; including leaves, sticks and stones. Vine clippings from Ashling Park Vineyard; rope from Emsworth Slipper Sailing Club.

Authorship
Dawn Sculthorpe Hayter, SculthorpeStudios with the Red Glove Co-Artists

System Design
Large-scale torus forms constructed and deployed through structured participation. Form emerges through co-authored placement, orientation and interaction within defined spatial conditions.

Parameters
Scale, duration, number of participants, material density, weather, terrain and spatial configuration influenced the resulting form.

Description
Tracing Systems is a participatory land art project exploring distributed authorship. The work operates as a system rather than a fixed composition, where outcomes are generated through interaction, constraint, iteration and response to site.

Phase One focused on collective making, material handling and the emergence of form through repeated acts of placement, carrying, testing and reconfiguration.