Bridge 5: The map is not the territory

For the project I have decided to develop on the idea of the mundane: the path that I take every day at the same time. The path that I chose is the 15 minute walk from my university accommodation to the University Centre every week from Monday to Friday at nine a.m. This walk became something of routine for me over the last four months, hence why I thought that this is something that I want to portray. My idea is that I want to demonstrate the fact that this walk became such a routine for me that I know just by looking at what is around me what time it is. This is because this walk is such a predictable and ordinary thing, yet I find this very pleasurable, as the predictability is something that I find soothing. To demonstrate that I have taken the map of the area where I reside, and put a string over the path that I take, and placed pins in every place that I deem as a landmark on my way. Then, I have walked that route at the usual time, and took polaroid photos of those landmark places. I have then attached these polaroid photos onto the board that the map is attached to. Then I connected them with strings to their respective pins, and then wrote the times at which I would be at those points completing the piece. 

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