walking rhythms

"...it starts with a step and then another step and then another step that add up like taps on a drum to a rhythm...Moving on foot seems to make it easier to move in time; the mind wanders from plans to recollections to observations.  The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts.  This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it.  A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making."  from Rebecca Solnit's Wanderlust: A History of Walking, 2000.  
 

 

  

from a walk performed in 2007 at Lake Louise, Alberta.

what a SPECTACULAR ACCIDENT that i have been collecting documentation of walks through landscapes for years and years, for reasons not completely known...until now?  more than scenic memories, i would like to find ways to incorporate these past psychogeographic experiences in my future conceptual art walks. 

ECHOES

operating as modes of thinking, the physical rhythms of walking can be linked to the sonic perception of music!