About the Project:
The Travel Pad project is a unique social experiment and communal experience designed to enhance your travels with a touch of creativity and connection. The primary goal of this project is to infuse a bit of foam into your arsenal, foster interactions among fellow climbers, introduce beautiful art into the world, and observe the journey of the pad as it travels from one climber to another.
Here’s how it works: we start by giving the pad to someone on a trip. It then becomes their responsibility to pass the pad to another person or group at the end of their stay. This process continues indefinitely, creating a chain of climbers connected by the pad.
For example, if you receive the pad in Bishop but your next destination is Red Rocks, you are welcome to take the pad with you, even if your travels take you internationally!
We encourage everyone who encounters the Travel Pad to share their photos and stories with our Instagram page, @travelpadproject. Let us know where the pad has been and the adventures it has experienced. By doing so, we can track the pad’s journey and celebrate the connections and creativity it inspires.
Rules:
- Do not stash the pad or leave the pad a trailhead or parking lot. One of the goals of the project is to encourage connection, so yes you may need to actually talk to people!
- Be kind. To the pad, to the artist, and to your fellow climbers.
- Share photos and stories with us! We want to see where these pads go! Do they travel internationally, do they go dormant and then reappear, we are excited to follow along with each and everyone’s journey.
About the Artist:
Charlene Johnny is a Coast Salish artist from the Quw’utsun Tribes of Duncan, B.C. residing on the unceded territory of her relatives the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. She began her career in 2012 when she won two artist grants from the YVR Art Foundation working with business, graphic design, photography, glass, and textiles. She has apprenticed under well-known artists and has formal art training from Native Education College. She graduated from the silver and copper carving program in 2018. She became a full time artist in 2020, with her main practice in graphic design and mural art. With her interdisciplinary approach to art, she will continue to work in various mediums to explore and express her ancestral artwork through a number of contemporary ways.
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Social Media
Follow the @travelpadproject on Instagram to see photos and videos of the pad and where it’s traveled!
Track the Pad
Use our Google Map to track the pads whereabouts and share where you have received, traveled, or climbed with the Travel Pad!
