Three days, three ways. Travis Hale

While traveling through a space, you can encounter many different experiences and events. How you travel through a space can have a great change in your perspective of the area.

I chose to travel a short path so I could try to be as specific as possible with every detail, idea, or experience I encounter.  My decision was to start on the corner of Jefferson and Chicago and continue to the corner of Broadway and Chicago. I chose to walk, bike, and drive through this path.

The first day I walked. Through walking, I noticed that I tend to look up a lot. I noticed more than any other of the ways of transportation that I notice movement much more. Movement of the small amount of plant life, signs, wind, everything. I am comfortable but feel a little on edge. I brought my camera with me on this first trip. I noticed I only took a picture of something that I noticed had a pop of color. With that in mind, I only noticed pops of color when I was on foot. I hear wind, cars, people, dogs, everything.

The second day, I rode my bike. While biking I found that I rarely look past the height of my eyes. I spend most of the time looking at the ground. I am not very comfortable and am more worried about my safety than any surroundings. I feel the road though in this for of transportation. I feel every bump, rock, crack in the road, everything. I notice more of the layout of the road and sparks ideas of how cities are planned. Grids come into mind. I block out almost all noises except my breathing and that of wind. I am in mind, not in the city.

The last day I chose to drive my route. In this way I notice the least. I don’t feel the road. I don’t look around. I am not aware of anything but my sense of direction, and thoughts of a destination. I don’t feel the space I’m in. The one thing different from the rest that I did notice though, like I said is the feeling of having a “destination”. Throughout the other forms I was in the environment and experiencing it for what it is and where it is. In the car I mainly think of where I will be.