Crumbs
The following is a trace of Route Haunting: A Barnes Adventure: waypoints to signpost what was, what is, and what if (we can only walk in this virtual landscape). This is an anarchival entry complimenting the live walk and zine.
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Counter/mapping
… For the walk-curious, inspiration-seeking, or simply those wandering about this anarchive. This is not an introduction or guide.
While still remaining in the mindful state, a guide reads the passage from Solid Objects.
In truth, John had been that day to Barnes Common, and there under a furze bush had found a very remarkable piece of iron. It was almost identical with the glass in shape, massy and globular, but so cold and heavy, so black and metallic, that it was evidently alien to the earth and had its origin in one of the dead stars or was itself the cinder of a moon. It weighed his pocket down; it weighed the mantelpiece down; it radiated cold. And yet the meteorite stood upon the same ledge with the lump of glass and the star-shaped china. As his eyes passed from one to another, the determination to possess objects that even surpassed these tormented the young man. He devoted himself more and more resolutely to the search. If he had not been consumed by ambition and convinced that one day some newly-discovered rubbish heap would reward him, the disappointments he had suffered, let alone the fatigue and derision, would have made him give up the pursuit.
Virginia Woolf, Solid Objects, 1920
We continue towards a solitary tree on the horizon. Walk 3: Sense of Orientation concludes there.
Zero Point D: The Tree
GPS: 51.46877, -0.2352
Grid Ref: TQ 22679 75899
At the tree, instructions are given for the next walk involving foraging for Solid Objects.
Then, we forage for solid objects … a meander through the cruising lanes.
Zero Point E – In the Open
GPS: 51.46912, -0.23699
Grid Ref: TQ 22553 75935
At Zero Point E we read Sense of Security.
Then we cross the road.
Zero Point F: A Shelter
GPS: 51.46911, -0.23813
Grid Ref: TQ 22553 75935
At Zero-Point F we read “It’s so Peaceful”
Then we cross another road on our way to Mill Hill …
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