Every walk is about a different idea. – Richard Long

This contraption documents jaywalking as a form of everyday resistance within car-centric infrastructure.

But who is Jay? Jay was a name used to describe someone who came from a suburban area. Jay is distracted by the dazzling light of the big city. And Jay is always in the way. Jay is someone who disturbs the order and does not fit in. According to the newspaper, The Junction City Union, the name Jay was first used as Jay-Driver To describe someone who doesn’t know how to follow the traffic regulation. As the domination of the street shifts from the pedestrian to the driver, the term jaywalking replaced jay-driving.

The act of jaywalking is interdependent on the other moving objects on the street. However, the action of jaywalking fully embraces the idea of free choice, reclaiming the dominance of this autonomous war. Compared to using a timed crossing where human behaviour is restricted with direction, and the regulation of time, Jaywalking is a natural human behaviour - a soft way to reject the systematically designed space that only benefits a car-dominated society.

When performing jaywalking, the pedestrian constantly has to engage in decision-making, time calculation, creating self-curated narratives. For the jaywalker, time is no longer a shared rhythm with the people who follow the traffic control, but a series of individual temporal fragments. A jaywalker creates their own timetable. The rhythm and movement of walking becomes a form of measurement.