»A walk with Henguchi« Henguchi is a Japanese artist and poet, who introduced us to Konohana, a local district in Osaka, quite central, near the harbor, surrounded by rivers and water. Some years ago we very briefly met British sociologist Iza Kavedžija on a street in Konohana who did some research there for her paper about artists in Osaka, called »I move my hand and then I see it«. Quote: When asked to reflect on their own creative practice, they would frequently invoke images of movement. …they would emphasise the importance of moving one’s body – and they compare their own lives to a path, albeit one with a far less visible endpoint“.
It takes time to experience a district, you can’t just point out anything interesting on a map and just talk a little bit about it. The time it takes to go from one place to another, the smell, the atmosphere, –sometimes even the boredom– let the experience stick in your memory, and makes it easier to understand.– It’s also very helpful if you don’t speak the same language.
»We live along paths – we live in landscapes, we go for walks. When we map this landscape, when we look from above paths become routes which only connect target points. But walking inside the landscape can change an attitude towards the worldand can make a difference between inhabiting or occupying an area.« About Tim Ingold’s »Lines: A Brief History«.