Dates in a Life Walking Project 2019, is my year-long project documenting the number of steps I walked last year. It measures 47.5" x 32".
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I prefer to walk for exercise, as time permits, outside in addition to whatever other walking I do as I go about my day. My goal is to walk as much as I can every day.
I used to use the Health app in my iPhone to keep track of steps, but now I'm using the Pedometer app. Apple reworked Health and it isn't easily showing the weekly number of steps, miles, and stairs climbed.
I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.
The daily background color changes season-to-season in this painting. I changed the daily background color from a bright yellow for the summer, to Indian Yellow Hue on September 24th. It was Teal Blue for Winter, then Green for Spring. When Winter starts again in December, I'll change the color back to Teal Blue.
The reason for the having the daily background color is to document my daily steps in fractions of 250 steps. As an example, after 2000 steps (which would be the icon with no paint), I'm painting colors to show as close as I can to 2250, 2500, 2750, and then up to 2999, instead of then rounding up to 3000 steps.
The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric.
I have new fabric printed, stitched, stiffened, and ready to document 2020.
