A pedestrian, an international traveler, and a bored-out-of-his-mind bus commuter take note of their surroundings. What do they notice? What do they find? Why does it matter? With these questions in mind, I take three works as my traveling companions: Robert Weaver’s A Pedestrian View: The Vogelman Diary (2012), Weng Pixin’s “Argentina Diaries” (2020), and Peter Arkle’s Dreaming on the 349 (2023).
This essay places these works in conversation with ideas of space/place (Yi-Fu Tuan), slow looking (Shari Tishman), and mapping artistic practice (Anne West). Ultimately, this essay considers how illustrated works wander through and wayfind meaning in sequences of everyday experience. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which image and text might ramble (move or talk seemingly without set destination) alongside each other in purposeful ambiguity. As Rebecca Solnit states, it is in the “indeterminacy of a ramble” that there “much is to be discovered.”
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This essay places these works in conversation with ideas of space/place (Yi-Fu Tuan), slow looking (Shari Tishman), and mapping artistic practice (Anne West). Ultimately, this essay considers how illustrated works wander through and wayfind meaning in sequences of everyday experience. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which image and text might ramble (move or talk seemingly without set destination) alongside each other in purposeful ambiguity. As Rebecca Solnit states, it is in the “indeterminacy of a ramble” that there “much is to be discovered.”
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This essay places these works in conversation with ideas of space/place (Yi-Fu Tuan), slow looking (Shari Tishman), and mapping artistic practice (Anne West). Ultimately, this essay considers how illustrated works wander through and wayfind meaning in sequences of everyday experience. In particular, I am interested in the ways in which image and text might ramble (move or talk seemingly without set destination) alongside each other in purposeful ambiguity. As Rebecca Solnit states, it is in the “indeterminacy of a ramble” that there “much is to be discovered.”
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