Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2024
The Dates in a Life Walking Project 2024 is a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.
I prefer to walk for exercise, as time permits, outside in addition to whatever other walking I do as I go about my day. My goal is to walk as much as I can every day. I use the Pedometer app on my iPhone to document my steps.
The base monoprinted grid is violet with Silver background paint used to signify the days days I didn’t have, or make, time to walk for exercise, which lowered the number of steps I walked each day.
Under some individual days, there is a painted line of color to represent reasons that may lower or raise the number of steps I walked that day, such as snow, rainy, extreme hot or cold, illness, and vacation.
The green dots in the middle of the icons indicate time healing from a foot injury which happened in May 2023.
I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.
The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric.
Work in Progress: Dates in a Life Walking Project 2024
Detail through March with room for the rest of 2024.