Daily Walking

In the sum­mer of 2014, I de­cid­ed to es­tab­lish a dai­ly ex­er­cise rou­tine: I would go walk­ing for half an hour every day. To en­sure that this good in­ten­tion would not end up just be­ing an­oth­er paver on my way to hell, I linked the ex­er­cise to an art project: dur­ing the walks I would, ac­cord­ing to a pre-de­fined set of rules, take pic­tures which I would then use to cre­ate art pieces.

Very soon, I dis­cov­ered the med­i­ta­tive ef­fect of walk­ing and how walk­ing with a cam­era in hand sharp­ens aware­ness for seem­ing­ly triv­ial or un­spec­tac­u­lar things. And just as soon the set of rules de­vel­opped its own mo­men­tum, con­stant­ly lead­ing to new ideas and in no time I was work­ing on par­al­lel se­ries of pieces, all vari­a­tions of the ba­sic con­cept.

What start­ed as a means to over­come my weak­er self, in time al­so be­came a re­flec­tion on per­cep­tion as such: what do I see? How do I see it? Why do I see it? What would an­oth­er per­son on the same walk see, and how, and why? What will view­ers see in my art work? And how, and why?

I walked (al­most) dai­ly from Au­gust 24, 2014 to Sep­tem­ber 11, 2019. It took me an­oth­er two years to fin­ish pro­cess­ing all the ma­te­r­i­al I had col­lect­ed in those five years. At the end of 2021, I fi­nal­ly com­plet­ed the se­ries and cel­e­brat­ed this achieve­ment  in the spring of 2022 with the pub­li­ca­tion of two books. For more in­for­ma­tion on the cat­a­logue  and pho­to book, click here.

All the works are for sale. Prices on de­mand

Af­ter a break of 1 year, 1 month and 1 day, I re­sumed my Dai­ly Walk­ing rou­tine on Oc­to­ber 13, 2020. This time as an In­sta­gram project. On my ac­count @dai­ly­walk­ing2020 I post a dai­ly pho­to I took dur­ing my walk and al­so show them here on my web­site.