We all carry interior maps of the places we know well – everyday routes between work and home, daily dog walks, back street short cuts and well worn desire paths that ease the getting from A to B.

Re:Rooted is a collaboration between Small Acts and Kitty Hillier. The project began as a dis-located experience of navigating Bodmin as a pedestrian. Negotiating blurred priorities at road crossings, taking awkward corners, double backing and getting lost. During Kitty’s first walking visit, it was Bodmin’s trees, rather than its buildings that made her feel located, providing moments of stillness, connection and wonder.

Small Acts core belief that everyone is the expert of their own place led us to develop a relationship with KBSK, a Bodmin-based performing arts and youth organisation that supports children, teenagers and families through accessible dance, creative activities and community programmes.

Through a series of studio based workshops and outdoor ‘walkshops’ members of KBSK’s Academy have been mapping where they live, the places that are important to them, where they meet friends, where they spend time, where the heart of Bodmin is to them.

An alternative map has been created to help people navigate Flamm in Bodmin through the eyes of young people. It includes routes, landmarks, social places and other places of importance such as the carnival route KBSK dance each year, Mount Folly, Chicken House and community hubs.

The sculpture itself is fabricated in Kitty Hillier’s studio at Art Centre Penryn. It’s form references the vast network of tree roots that connect everything under the surface of the streets. The sculptures shape is also informed by the routes drawn through creative walking practices including GPS mapping.

During the festival weekend, Re:Rooted is temporary moving sculpture that is only activated by the artists and participants carrying it across Bodmin. The work playfully reroutes audiences as it moves through the town, trying to get round corners and across roads, the soft form of the sculpture contrasting against the hard granite of the town’s material fabric.