“A map is not the territory…”

For me, the most important map in the recent years has been the map of the town where my school was located. The map of my 9 minute 1 mile long route that I took every day to school and back. It s the route that I by now can walk while sleeping, and I believe that I will remember every corner of it for years to come. It was a crucial part of my process of maturation, as while walking to school every day by that route I thought about what i the day is going to bring me, and how am I going to remove the issues that I am faced with during it. It was the walk during which I pre-loaded myself with confidence, and at the end of the day, when I walked back, I was able to calm myself down, and put my mind into a calmer mood. These 9 minutes were important to me.

That is exactly why I want to make this project about this walk. A map of it, that would minute by minute explain my path, and how it was for me. This will be achieved by me using the map of the town, and laying the route of it with a piece of red guiding string, as an allusion to the string that Ariadne gave to Theseus in the labyrinth of Minotaur. Then, I would indicate at which time would I be in which part of the path. That would be supported by images of what that place looks like, and each of the images would refer to a certain landmark that I would pass on my way to school. Thus, I would virtually recreate the feeling and visuality of my usual morning.