New work in progress, through January, in my Dates in a Life Walking Project 2021, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walk each day. I've documented my steps in paintings for the years 2016 through 2020 and I decided to do it again in 2021.
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 use the Pedometer app on my iPhone to document my steps, miles, and flights of 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.
This year, the daily background color will change depending on how many flights of stairs I climb each day, by fives, not tens. I'm using two different blues for 1-5 and 6-10, two greens for 11-15 and 16-20, two yellows for 21-25 and 26- 30 and red is still for 31+, which does happen at times, but rarely.
