creature walk 8: cocooned

Today I walked through a public space in which I was cocooned; an experiment in projecting my private space into the public domain. For this creature walk, I made use of my ipod to send a soundtrack to my brain and construct a private environment that could be seen by the public (those white wires [...]

creature walk 7: public disruption

This particular creature walk (rather, creature not-walking) project takes its inspiration from an artist named Kim Sooja who performed a piece (with other friends) called Beggar Woman (2001) where individuals meditated in the midst of a public ’space’ in Times Square for one full hour. I was interested in the idea of disappearing public [...]

creature walk: collared

This creature walk is about wearing a collar. It’s about being collared, controlled, domesticated and kept.
I chose to make a small modification to the fabric of my daily life for at least five hours. I sustained this behavior modification, the act of wearing a collar as a domesticated animal, as I walked around in [...]

creature walk: the collar

There are no dogs in our house right now. I love all animals, and I grew up with dogs, but at the moment it wouldn’t be fair to the dog to be left alone all day at our house without proper surroundings and loving attention. For my next creature walk, I was thinking [...]

creature walk 5: non-violence

Today I am a non-violent creature.
If you had to walk in the name of someone for something (like a cause), where would you go ? How would you act? How would you walk? People all over the world walk/run in names of those they love to raise awareness or money to find a cure for [...]

creaturewalk: mapping social territory

Artists are generally members of multiple social groups because we are naturally curious about anything and everything around us. For this reason, I had a hard time choosing one particular ’social’ group or ’scene’ — many of these groups reside online, or connect by long distance or by mail or happen after traveling to [...]

creature walk 3: sight

I am a common Inca ground dove *. Today is cool and blustery and the wind makes it hard to balance on the rocks next to the railroad tracks. The sun is not really out and this is a dangerous time because this place does not normally know sunlessness. With no sunshine to heat the [...]

creature walk 2: audio

Urban pedestrian is the creature I am today and the exercise is about hearing. The town of Tucson, Arizona has jump emptied of all the University students and people speak of the peace and quiet that the summer months bring to this little desert community. And how strange it is that they think [...]

creature walk 1: touch

It took a long time to try and figure out what to do for my first walk. Today I really wanted to take the time to feel the blistering heat of the desert since it is just the beginning of the summer. The memory of cool breeze from the Sonoran springtime is still fresh [...]