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Welcome to The Walking Home Project.

This is my website, where I tell you about my art and my walking adventures through Brussels, with Sybille l’atelier mobile. ceci est mon site web ou je parle de mon Art et de mes aventures marchant Bruxelles avec Sybille L’atelier mobile, je vais ecrire en anglais …

every day I walk I will report back and write in posts and add to spiralling brussels map

The previous website got hacked and all the stories from my previous walk disappeared. I might bring them back one day, but for now I’m focusing on something new and exciting.

First I’ll trace the edge of Brussels, then spiral inward. I’ll be writing in English.

Stay close.

Who am I?

I am Jyoti Vennix — artist, walker, maker.

It started with cancer. I was home, then corona hit, my husband and daughter were home too, and instead of going to the hospital gym to get fit again, I started walking. Then I lost my work as a clown in hospitals and care homes, and I thought: I’m going.

Before I left, I did a 70-day residency at De Pianofabriek in Brussels — making something every single day, without judgment, just letting it happen. Those small works eventually helped fund what came next: 777 days, 12,600 km, 11 countries, on foot.

I had no plan to make art along the way. But the blood goes where it must. A thread here, a scrap of fabric there. I started collecting, sewing on a bench in the sun, crocheting while walking, making in my tent in the rain. Every day I shared what I found and what I made. The road became a studio. The earth became my home.

Now I’m back in Brussels — the city where I studied, where I met my husband, where my sons were born. The place my daughter grew up. The city that feels like home. I wanted to go back out into the world, but I also wanted my own place in it. And then I thought: the world is right here. I’ll go find it.

I can’t change the world. But I can change mine.

That’s what The Walking Home Project is.

Jyoti Vennix

The Walking Home Project

An Eight-Month Artistic Journey Through Brussels

In Brussels, countless communities coexist, each with its own rhythm, language, and heartbeat.
Hidden within these layers lies a city of quiet gestures, shared spaces, and unspoken connections.
The Walking Home project unfolds within this living mosaic as a eight-month artistic journey across the neighbourhoods and people that make up the city.
The project is an invitation to slow down, to meet, to listen, and to rediscover what “home” means when we can see others.

Through daily walks, spontaneous encounters, and acts of creation, I will weave together the textures of Brussels — its people, its materials, and its overlooked corners.

The city itself will become my studio, my stage, and my companion.