“The Streets Talk”

Final gallery installment. \/

Photoshoped final images. \/

Pre-Photoshop sketches. \/

I chose to walk the line and record expressive feelings and sight in my sketchbook.

• [ predic. ] (expressive of) conveying (the specified quality or idea): the spires are expressive of religious aspiration.

DERIVATIVES

-expressively adverb, expressiveness noun, expressivity |ˌekspreˈsivitē|noun

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘tending to press out’): from French expressif, -ive or medieval Latinexpressivus, from exprimere ‘press out’ (see express3). Compare with express1.

I decided to walk the line and conduct interesting and imaginative questions as i walked.

-What would things look like from above, perhaps in a helicopter, or just flying?

-How different would this path look if the trees were yellow and the leaves were purple?

-What would society look like if everyone walked on their hands?

-How difficult would life be if everyone was blind?

-How wold we communicate if we all spoke different languages?

-What would happen right this second if there were no police?

-What would doors look like if people didn’t have hands?

-Would we have sidewalks if everyone could float?

-What would we do with streets if we had hovercrafts?

-If everyone looked the same how would we recognize one another?

-Would we have street lights if the sun never went down?

-What would replace grass if it didn’t exist?

-What would the line look like from under the earths crust?

-If cars didn’t exist would we still ride horses?

-Would you drink water if its natural color was brown-green?

-What would the world look like if trees grew horizontally?

-How would people drive if streets/roads didn’t exist?

-How boring would life be without sound?

-What would sound look like if we could see it?

-What color would oxygen be if it was visible?

I created a survey on do you like cold weather and asked people on the line as i walked.

(((ON A COLD DAY)))

I decided to walk the line in a unique way. I chose to close one eye and proceed on my path through the line. When i did this i noticed it was incredibly hard to understand the true distance objects were from me. It wasn’t too hard just walking on a path, but when i came in contact with a pole or a tree or stairs my perception began to slip away. For example i came what i thought was an arms length from a pole but when i reached out to touch it the pole was actually further than an arms length away. If i were to injure my eye i would have some problems interacting with objects.

Larger images cropped down and sketched from the line..

While walking the line i came across some different conversations and recorded them.

1. Cigarette smoke

2. Rain

3. Dead worms

4. Fried chicken

5. Skunk

6. Car exhaust

7. Bark

8. Freshly cut grass

9. Terra Cotta Coffee

10. Mud