Bengaluru: City artiste plans 850-km solo coastline walk from October 1
Bengaluru: She is a maverick poet, a performer, an artiste, a social activist and a backpacker from our very own Bengaluru. She is out to build perspectives on environment through a solo sojourn of 850 kilometers by the coastline from Batapady in Kerala to Kanyakumari.
Meet experiential educator Janet Orlene, 27, a college-drop-out, whose 60-day long solo walk by the coastline will begin on October 1 this year from Batapady near the Kerala Karnataka border. The walk will encompass people from all spheres of life and will be videographed and produced by a team of naturalists, botanists and wilderness survival individuals of her types.
Janet has been investing all her talents to connect humans to humans and humans to environment by creating platforms for a free exchange of perspectives. She has channelised her skills in poetry, adventure sports, art that includes all form of fine arts like painting, caricatures, sculptures and many more over the years.
"Though this is a solo walk, it is dynamic in nature and anybody and any number can be my fellow travellers through this journey and also beyond", said Janet Orlean in an exclusive tete-e-tete with Deccan Chronicle.
"In the present ages, especially after the advent of social media, individuals are splitting into separate tribes owing to their conflicting ideologies. It is our right to have an opinion on things but the current trend of one trying to shut down another for possessing an opposite opinion is definitely not making the world a better place to live. In recent years, the leftist v/s rightist jibes, the feminist v/s masculism fights among so many differing opinions are adding more to the already existing borders between the humankind", quips Janet.
"Through my various activities, I am trying to create a platform wherein the people are willing to speak out and also listen to perspectives and still continue to co-exist in harmony. The solo walk is an attempt to share my stories, listen to others', find a common perspective in terms of our connection with nature and also ourselves. There is an urgent need to revisit our roots with nature and hold the environment away from further destruction the way it has been holding us for so long", says Janet.
The long beach walk will take her across the backwaters, the streams, rivulets and the delta as she traverses past Kannur, Guruvayur, Thalassery, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram before culminating in Kanyakumari.
"I am living my explorer fantasies as a kid through this beach walk. This is an opportunity for me to interact with myself, environment and interact with many on the way to learn how they interact with each other and nature. I will be gathering more perspectives and in the process also make it conducive for others to present their perspectives and gather new ones. Here people can say anything without fear or intimidation," says writer Janet.
