Move to Discover.

I have been watching people as they walk around the city, from street, house window and bus window level [upper and lower deck]. At first I noted the parts of the body that moved as they walk. Next I saw the clothes and accessories, then facial movement. Hands hanging, the speed of the up/down cycle, the limits in variation, the pace and the mindset that controls it...Foot A/Foot B, limp loop, strut width, bobbing torso, gap between upper arm and ribs.

After that I got back to the art+walk connection, thinking more about people who walk with the conscious intention of finding something [or incidental hope, unexpecting optimism], be they out with a pad or a camera or a bunch of sandwich bags. I left the following hyphen string on my telephone handset:

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What kind of activities take place within the gulch of art and walking?

Photographers roam with cameras, poets with notepads, sketching the landscape, drawing...I think that I shall focus mainly upon the city as there appears to be more to observe or really because I prefer the pace and amount of people, constant movements at certain times, lots of different faces, bodys, clothes, accessories, heights. Walk observation is visual so I can be deaf to everything else.

There are people collecting sound with minidisc recorders and microphones, people looking, collecting unconsciously. Do you know what you are capable of remembering and why might that be important or useful? Why are people doing what they are doing? Why do I care?

Anyway, back to the art/walk overlap. I will attempt to find ten people who use the walk in different ways, to inspire their work or to provide materials. I will find at least one person from a place that I have never heard of. I will go now.