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| Model of wooden path based off of the apprentice character in The Sorcerer's Apprentice = I sound + feel like a crazy person. |
For school, we were tasked this semester with the design of two paths along a creek, one on each side. Guised in familiarity and simplicity, the idea of the path destroyed us, at first. The path would manifest itself in foreign ways, confusing and testing our most basic understanding of people moving through space. First, it was a story of two characters entwined into a drama, moving together. Later, it put itself onto a map and became a thing of real consequence. The path immediately morphed into a geometry of mathematical logic, radii and angles. At our shock, the path soon became physical and practical, made of manufactured parts, two by fours, I-beams, and concrete foundations. The path formed into a powerful thing that controlled movement and perception at every scale, made of both drama and logic.
Drama: an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances.
Logic: a system or set of principles underlying the arrangements of elements in a device so as to perform a specified task.
The first pass at this task has inspired and instilled an appreciation for the spaces that exist in our world that move us in ways that free us. Whether it's a home we grew up in or a meadow in the woods, the way we move is often directed in a particular way by the entities who make, maintain, and populate these places: architects, parents, water, the footsteps of wild creatures.
