Plein Air Art. Painting in the plein-air style.

The Artwork of
Kent Wilkinson

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The Walker

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While still very young, Hilda Rogers the Walker, was confronted by a flyer. The incident so impressed Rogers the Walker that she gave up her desire to become a stick waver, and had taken the Oath of Short Days. Her boyfriend was so upset by her sudden conversion that he reported her to the authorities. He claimed that this act had left him without his ordained and natural future position. The authorities agreed and her punishment was that she be flung from a high building onto stakes, and in doing so also fulfilled her destiny.

In art The Walker is often shown surrounded by anxiety sticks and is sometimes portrayed receiving the oath from the flyer. Often she is shown only with a pointed stick, the symbol of her martyrdom. This much discussed icon is sometimes carried as a charm by young women in hopes of warding off bad relationships and pointed sticks.