 Change of Pace keep up with the pace stick with me - I stride purposefully down Pindar street wherever it may lead - when it becomes too much stay by my side - do not dissent I know what I'm doing ---  #Lookup Lookdown
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 restructuring dissent ascending descending a re-structuring of words & space - ascent plus descent plus dissent - consensus approved ---  collaboration magnification
view from above flying high for it is fodder rural geometric shapes re-place dissolved city face - beneath it all collaborators provocateurs editing layers - human hand overlays pretty patterns graffiti derivation - roundabout originator of place & space ---   I love your Photo's Karen. The image of the road give me the sense of hovering over the ground. I'm imaging myself as a drone with a camera. Unfortunately my computer has thrown a wobbler and cant cope with what I'm trying to do with the photos.
Words keep growing. You can write really well. I can imaging all this being turned into a video or a performance. I've re-imagined the walk with you and altered you text adding a stream of consciousness. I've imagined that we've walked together. some of it makes sense and some of it is just me in the zone. this is just a first draft and needs more work. We walked to the White Collar Factory where the blue collared folk would make white collars for their oppressors The collars were round as the corner of Old street roundabout down City road probably be cutting across he turned and said You should become a taxi driver "what? A taxi Driver? I would miss walking too much' Karen Snaps You seem to know bits of this old city that even the natives don't know We headed towards commercial and soon I was faltering You walk too fast I said But the relentless pace of this agile mind kept wandering I'll let you know what I'm doing and where we're going just keep up I can see the Shard now I think I am still in the Borough of Islington but i cant be sure It must change soon from one borough to another skipping through the compressed clutter of the city A parkour of seeing in a city full of structures that juxtapose to form a gestalt of ideas and possibilities Its freezing cold my fingers are frozen as we take the photos It allmost seems that we don't cate that its so cold the cameras are just part of us as me hurriedly snap away before the dusk takes away our canvas before the loss of apricity undoes our play not sure how they are going to turn out I'm sure the photos will be fine They are less images and more documents of emotion as if what was felt when you witness the moment can be transferred into this box by trapping the light we can press our thoughts into the pages of ourselves We ended up coming down further on City road and turned left onto Worship street which is quite appropriate we are preying for warmth to get out of the cold all explorers need to get back to base and out fingers were longing to be curled around a warm cup of cha Also, her new studio is an old Synagog so there is a link Making art is like worship you believe in the thought you are dedicated to the making you practice drawing like a chant it needs to happen daily life seems empty without it on one side of City road its the Borough of Islington on this side - Worship Street - its the Borough of Finsbury we have flown in between places one the border between regimes at a juncture where everything changes and yet everything is the same the no-mans-land of litanies "Hey Ash I was just thinking " Karen said "I was talking to Andrew this morning He said I don't get lost its not #gettinglost its not wandering as I walk with purpose I said in return I get lost in my head while I'm out walking with purpose" I found this explanation profound Like a epiphany the thought of walking with purpose but without a fixed destination seemed profound This is what artist do This is the honesty of our labour It is the purpose with which we dive through the streets of experimentation and bring back gestures that mark pages with everything from charcoal to tape that makes it all worth while Karen went on "I get lost in the moment of taking the photos looking and looking and looking I don't know about the wandering bit throws up interesting things different people see different things" and thats what makes us creatives I guess we see the alternative side of everything and everywhere we dream while were awake and that makes us want to make it makes us see things that others can't we stop to take pictures of garbage and when they balk without even an ounce of curiosity at what we are doing we're still lost in the moment with the article of insignificance that lays on the ground our eyes in a fleeting dalliance with shapes and colours we cant see them and we also never reciprocate when a dirty look is belched our way cycle on Paul Street Karen took a photo of a double cycle on the corner of Paul Street where Paul runs into Wilson two cyclists plating in the middle of the road reminds me of the Raleigh chopper i never had but always wanted Maybe I should get a bike so i can sit here with these sedentary cyclists in the road watching the world overhead "I was taking photos of all round this area in 2014 I was doing the other art fair at the old Truman brewery it all looks so different" Karen explains everything changes we change and so places like people need to change the only difference is that these places will be here for a long time a long time after the people have gone the buildings that were being built then have been built I do remember little bits here & there even the road markings have aged or there's new ones I guess 3 or 4 years on you look at things differently the end is never the end but the begin of something else the dissent and decent of one thing signals the assent of another drawings in the sand that are smoothed over by the relentless tides as the sea washes over the beach it leaves marks of its own which are just as profound as any other we would make #doubleyellows on the corner of Clifton Street #40 Its a dead end for cars pedestrians can walk through creativity is the human spirit we can always find a way to walk through just imagine double yellows for people not to stand around in a place it wouldn't work Humanity is creativity and it can't be suppressed necessity is creativity or rather creativity is nesssesity when its taken away our demise follows I saw an amazing building/structure on the outside I am going to head towards that mostly all glass - I'll see what that's all about just another example of what can be imagines and achieved even corporations need humans and their creativity eventually going past the army reserves centre on Clifton I was in the Army Reserves in Australia for 7 years as a truck driver Karen explains in the distance Karen recognise a building which is part of Broadgate the back of Liverpool Street we head there one of my favourite public sculptures is there light boxes by David Batchelor says Karen we stopped to take a photos on route David Batchelor's sculpture in Broadgate its the sun street entrance/exit I love it this building beside it is one of Karens favourite buildings the shapes of the windows on the outside I call them un-equal quadrilateral its the UBS building I don't know what that means or it houses UBS its massive I'm back where I started 2 days ago explains Karen Going to take a few more photos round here couple more photos I see in the distance then head to the studio so thats it for today I acme across Karens words from one of her first posts and was taken by the way the handwriting created routes. Beyond words they make routes that could be followed on a map. I've mapped the words over the route Karen walked and recorded as audio. In doing so, I'm trying to create new ways of getting lost - mechanisms for dissenting from society   Moving Through Time & Space much time has past since week 1 when recording this collaborative exploration I have tried to make it new old news through words in image captions week 2 I am in a different place I am flying the route as it is documented ...... my thoughts are energised with provoking new posts to reply to ..... ... for Ash - Looking Back at Week1 while ensconced in Week2 Urban Exploration 4 - old & new news from Week1 
Old Street to Commercial Road Urban Exploration 4 photos taken of the White Collar Factory corner of Old street roundabout now heading down City road I'll probably be cutting across heading towards commercial soon but I'll let you know what I'm doing I can see the Shard now I think I am still in the Borough of Islington It must change soon Its freezing cold my fingers are frozen as I take the photos not sure how they are going to turn out I ended up coming down further on City road I'm turning left onto Worship street which is quite appropriate my new studio is an old Synagog so there is a link on one side of City road its the Borough of Islington on this side - Worship Street - its the Borough of Finsbury Hey Ash I was just thinking I was talking to Andrew this morning He said I don't get lost its not #gettinglost its not wandering as I walk with purpose I said in return I get lost in my head while I'm out walking with purpose I get lost in the moment of taking the photos looking and looking and looking I don't know about the wandering bit throws up interesting things different people see different things cycle on Paul Street I took a photo of a double cycle on the corner of Paul Street where Paul runs into Wilson I was taking photos of all round this area in 2014 I was doing the other art fair at the old Truman brewery it all looks so different the buildings that were being built then have been built I do remember little bits here & there even the road markings have aged or there's new ones I guess 3 or 4 years on you look at things differently #doubleyellows on the corner of Clifton Street #40 Its a dead end for cars pedestrians can walk through I saw an amazing building/structure on the outside I am going to head towards that mostly all glass - I'll see what that's all about going past the army reserves centre on Clifton I was in the Army Reserves in Australia for 7 years as a truck driver in the distance I recognise a building which is part of Broadgate the back of Liverpool Street I am going to head there one of my favourite public sculptures is there light boxes by David Batchelor stopped to take a photos on route David Batchelor's sculpture in Broadgate its the sun street entrance/exit I love it this building beside it is one of my favourite buildings the shapes of the windows on the outside I call them un-equal quadrilateral its the UBS building I don't know what that means or it houses UBS its massive I'm back where I started 2 days ago Going to take a few more photos round here couple more photos I see in the distance then head to the studio so thats it for today Exploration through images words & captions #lookup fly up and over or am I flying down & through or balancing on the edge free as a bird all three options are real to me  look down #doubleyellows curved wickets playing cricket  moving through flying close to the ground geometric directionality down city street  still reflection bomb disposal now safe & sound or lying in wait  #cyclerevolution cycle with Paul #doubleyellows doublevision  reimagined unbalancing hardedges block on block paves the way  Chromorama David Batchelor on Sun street square chromo blockonblocks light up the void I flew to the top it was a sight to see the mini-me  XXXXXXXXX Bank Building Broadgate Framing Chromorama hard to explain how I feel is it in vain? I can climb I can fly to the UBS top reimagined reality Ultra Bonkers crazy wandererS back down to earth with a Bang googled UBS Bank where POPS refers to Pops & Drops Privately Owned Public Space forgotten? fallen between the cracks? Response Requiredhandover
to you Ash I have your other posts to catchup on Urban Explorer Crazy Wanderer Frequent Flyer watch this space I have no idea what I am doing @kbwoodnews you see space & structure stretch from the earth as a forrest to swing through
you don't just feel like but can fly You can fly through the spacesbetwen of reality and avuncular grand realities the spacebetween of gods and peasants the spacebetween what is just been said to millions only read by hundreds and understood my a handful thats your real thought when you fly unburdened by destination on the silk of tarmac glistening after a burst of rain on this street... I see places as kaleidoscopes a supersymmetry of an unearthly space unbound by the obvious tempos existing in an unseen space the symmetry of two and more the symmetry of you and yours the symmetry of equals and sequels are easier to remember places as faces the eyes of milieu burnet into my retina over and over to enact a psychedelic symphony that stays ringing in the ears of my sight This is for the thoughtscapes we make remake and realise as art This is for the intentional and default dissent that allows the human race to ascend to new realities This is for all of us that admit to being creative This is for all of us that don't laugh at the jokes of the human race as a dichotomy This is for all of us that don't hide from the child inside us This is for all of us that want to play This is for all of us that know that work is a folly for those who are hoodwinked into thinking they need to This is for all of us that are content with nothing but are gratified by making PROVOKED sunday wake up right sock on left foot saturday spent responding to photochop Kung Fu no space to work congestion from patterned image tape un-responsive saturday debris left time for contemplation sunday performance won-out seen only by one distilled reflection recorded essence of blockII drawn over to my provocateur  "Found Tape Drawing - Barrier" Waterloo Station Urban Exploration Image  "Divider" creating new directionality Photochop Kung Fu by Ashkok Mistry (BlockII collaborator/provocateur)  "Saturday - Debris Left" Contemplationsaturday night - on reflection of all the work produced I discovered it was the very first and last pieces of work which worked for me sunday morning while documenting the work through taking photographs I discovered the work wanted to become a part of a wall drawing and distilled performance  "Searching for Space and Structure"  "Distilled Congestion"  reflection - or does it become something - else "distilled performance" ?  "Essence of Distilled Barrier" remapped as "essence of blockII drawn" Sunday night after a day away from the work - I now see this drawing as blockI blockII blockIII coming together - a vertical and lateral chain link. Response to BlockI and the Lateral Linkage to BlockII have been on my mind all week and it has come out in a drawing of my barrier in the midst of the drawings which were not working on Saturday over to my provocateur ....... BlockI - Peter & James - is there a vertical channel back up the chain? BlockIII - Sarah and Denise - is there a lateral link between our Blocks? Ash thanks for your provocation it has been a challenging weekend!
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