"
Psychogeography: a beginner's
guide. Unfold a
street map of
London, place a glass, rim down,
anywhere on the
map, and draw round its
edge. Pick up the
map,
go out into
the city, and
walk the
circle, keeping as close as you can to the curve.
Record the
experience as you go, in whatever medium you favour:
film,
photograph,
manuscript, tape. Catch the
textual run-off of the
streets; the graffiti, the branded
litter, the snatches of
happenstance of metaphors, watch for visual
rhymes, coincidences, analogies,
family resemblances, the
changing moods of the
street. Complete the circle, and the
record ends.
Walking makes for content; footage for footage."
Robert MacFarlane, "A
Road of One's Own: Past and Present
Artists of the Randomly Modivated Walk," Times Literary Supplement, London, October 7, 2005
