Soft Ground

 

2025

 

Doyle recalls a distilled memory of walking the 73 mile Cumbria Way with her partner and brother.

 

Ruined shoes, blistered feet, healing time with men, slugs and lizards warming on stones, mushrooms rising from damp earth, encountering peace, phones tucked away, laughter and shared silences, cold water baptisms, gratitude for food and rest, and unexpected softness emerging in places that are anything but soft.

 

Doyle transforms group memories, growth and ways of feeling safe into objects to honour what we should hold dear.