Walking #2

Thinking about walking as a practice –

Walkers can cross predetermined boundaries and more accurately depict the lived spatial experience of an individual or a community. This activity, if made visible, would not be unlike the mark-making a visual artist makes on paper or a canvas, and reminds us that the boundaries described in official maps are actually fictional.

 “We are not walking on surfaces but are part of the spaces we walk in.”

(Source: Walking as Embodied Worldmaking/Lea Maris Spahn, Editor)

“Memory…is written into the fabric of the world.”

(Source: Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter/ Karen Barad)

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