FIELD NOTE 01 / WALKING

The familiar route

A good walk can be the one you have taken a hundred times.

New places make it easy to pay attention. Familiar places ask for a different kind of effort: noticing the light on a wall, a branch after the rain, or the sound of a street before the day gets busy.

Start close to home

Choose a route short enough that it never becomes a project. Leave enough time to stop. There is no distance to complete and nothing to record unless you want to.

Return in different weather

A path in low cloud is not quite the same path in clear evening light. The landscape changes its pace even when we forget to change ours.

Walk slowly. Look up. Take the long way back when there is time.