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 Room 2: A Time and a Place 

The works in this room are unique framed photographs with short texts. The text not only provides information about the location and length of the walk, but sometimes indicates incidents and experiences encountered during the walk that cannot be represented in a photograph - for example, sounds or temperature. Some texts describe an action performed in the course of the journey, such as Touching Boulders by Hand, Norway 1992, while others are more enigmatic, such as An Unrecognisable Shape of an Indescribable Colour, India 1984.

Many of the works in this room focus on markers in the landscape. Milestones by the side of the road and cairns or boulders in a landscape are ways of locating oneself in often remote environ-ments. The boulders, paths and landscapes are depicted exactly as the artist found them. Fulton does not remove or rearrange any objects found during his walks and this desire to leave the land unmarked by his presence differentiates him from other Land artists. In keeping with contemporary thinking on low-impact trekking, Fulton aims to 'leave no trace'. He has said, 'The single most important issue of our times is the condition of the planet'.