"Still Walking"
Section MS1, Georgia Hablutzel
Keywords: book, publication, built-environment, repetition
Still Walking uses overlay as a technique to show the power of walking. Today, travel methods have been updated in such a way that it is difficult for people to notice the many invisible details of the city. Suppose we return to walking as our daily mode of travel, how would our attention change to create an alternative reading experience?
When we are walking, our body comes into contact with the road through our feet. In order to capture this sensation, I used photography as a method to capture my feet's point of view through a shoe device with a mounted camera.
I planned to target the entire length of the path from my daily commute, from my apartment to school, which is about an hour's walk. And I pinpointed 15 turns which would mark a moment to photograph over a period of four weeks. In order to present the changes produced by the same road at different times, I used a digital printer to overlay image of each location at different times on the same sheet of paper. Each day of road photography forms an accumulation that becomes a library, like countless moments frozen on a single image.
The form of the book captures the unfolding of this journey, sculpting a map which extends and unfolds like a road at one's feet. These fold outs construct the road from the perspective of my feet, such as looking down and up to capture junctures and crossings which my feet experienced.