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   * 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. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests athat the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: a history of walking.   * 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. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests athat the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: a history of walking.
   * she describes walking as a state in which the mind, the body and the world are alingned, as though they were three characters finally in concersation with each other, three notes suddenly make a chord. According to Solnit, the walking agreement not only provides a pleasant or healing feeling, which we all know, but also promotes creativity; during the walk, the passing landscape becomes, as it were, intertwined with your thought world, which also becomes a landscape. The new ideas that gradually emerge feel more familiar than usual. As though thinking were travelling rather than making.   * she describes walking as a state in which the mind, the body and the world are alingned, as though they were three characters finally in concersation with each other, three notes suddenly make a chord. According to Solnit, the walking agreement not only provides a pleasant or healing feeling, which we all know, but also promotes creativity; during the walk, the passing landscape becomes, as it were, intertwined with your thought world, which also becomes a landscape. The new ideas that gradually emerge feel more familiar than usual. As though thinking were travelling rather than making.
-  * "thought only gains value after it has been walked through" Frederic Nietsche.+  * "thought only gains value after it has been walked through" Frederic Nietsche.
   * landing Sites Cocky Eek; https://cockyeek.com/projects/landing-sites/   * landing Sites Cocky Eek; https://cockyeek.com/projects/landing-sites/
  
  
-  * My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. interview by Higgins, Charlotte. The Guardian, June 15, 2012+  * My footsteps make the mark. My legs carry me across the country. It's like a way of measuring the world. I love that connection to my own body. It's to me the world. Richard long. The Guardian, June 15, 2012
  
   * After the rains, the air smells fresh with ozone sap, and leaf litter, and my senses are alive with curiosity. Anna Tsing   * After the rains, the air smells fresh with ozone sap, and leaf litter, and my senses are alive with curiosity. Anna Tsing
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   * since the 60's walking itself became a form of art by itself.   * since the 60's walking itself became a form of art by itself.
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-  * Buido van der Werve, in 2007 left with a small crew to the Botanical Golf, to make a movies where he slowly walks over ice, just in front of Sampo, a three and a half thousand ton icebreaker of the Finnish government. A risky venture, but delivered an iconic result: the film number eight, Everything is going to be all right.+  * Guido van der Werve, in 2007 left with a small crew to the Botanical Golf, to make a movies where he slowly walks over ice, just in front of Sampo, a three and a half thousand ton icebreaker of the Finnish government. A risky venture, but delivered an iconic result: the film number eight, Everything is going to be all right. 
 +  * Monty Python; Ministry of silly Walks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLp7zodUiI
  
 assignment: from the exotics--- to the everyday surrounding , read text together....Embodied research in emergent Antropoceen landscapes. a walk as inspiration for a work or as a work itself... assignment: from the exotics--- to the everyday surrounding , read text together....Embodied research in emergent Antropoceen landscapes. a walk as inspiration for a work or as a work itself...
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