As part of an ethnographic fieldwork element of an arts practice-based PhD, I have spent time in Scots pinewoods, learning about their ecology and management, and the tasks that people perform in these landscapes; shadowing and working with ecologists, foresters and others to do so.

Using a GPS to track our movements, I create digital drawings, the residual marks of our excursions through these places, and traces of the tasks undertaken. Each drawing tells a different tale, revealing the very specific ways different tasks require us to move through place. From activities such as brood-counting and seedling-counts, these drawings trace movements through often quite remote landscapes, walking the land for specific purposes, with little regard to paths, rivers or contours. They give depth and context to the writing and images that explain these movements and spatialise them in ways that writing or images on their own would never quite convey. My paper will discuss the tasks and movements behind some of these drawings, using video, sound and image and bringing in writers from art, anthropology and geography to give further context to a standpoint which argues for the value and necessity of a more-than-written approach.