wALKING
Mapping out a house and its surroundings with methods of walking.
How many buns
Measuring distance by the time it takes to do something, such as how much of a cinnamon bun you eat from the bakery to your home.
Decide a distance you are curious about or one which might be useful to know. Then go off while you continuously do what you chose to do. If you try with food or drinks, slowly and steadily fill your mouth with what ever choice of food or drink, but take your time to enjoy the taste, it’s not a competition.
Try with other things that you know by heart, such as songs or poems, or bring a book and start reading from the same page every time. Soon you might know it by heart too, just watch out for the traffic!
Round and about
Walking the same round in the same space several times, each round giving attention to different details:
A choice of color, signs with words, furniture, architecture, cups and clothes, surface of the ground, materials, smell, taste, temperature, sounds, light, or people passing.
Try it in your home or on your daily journey to somewhere in the neighborhood.
Walk n’ draw
Initially thinking that we would let the pen follow our movements, setting off on our own paths one by one soon revealed how there are many decision makers within one´s own body. Who leads who; the drawer or the walker, the hands or the feet, the pen or the eyes, the paper or the landscape?
In this method there are many variations. Such a difference it makes if you hold the paper close to your body or further out, and if you hold the pen at the top or the bottom!
Try changing type of paper, types of drawing tools, colors, thickness and even with a playlist to measure duration.