A Path Is A Prior Interpretation Of

I Was Not Going To Surrender To The Status Quo And Corporate Insistence That Ordinary People Have No Power And Influence.

I Grew Up With Landscape As A Recourse, With The Possibility Of Exiting The Horizontal Realm Of Social Relations For A Vertical Alignment With Earth And Sky, Matter And Spirit. Vast Open Spaces Speak Best To This Craving, The Spaces I Myself First Found In The Desert And Then In The Western Grasslands.

For Me The Insurrectionary Possibilities Of Disaster Are What Make Them Really Interesting And Sometimes Positive - Mexico City's Big 1985 Earthquake Brought A Lot Of Positive, Populist, Anti-institutional Social Change.

In Great Cities, Spaces As Well As Places Are Designed And Built: Walking, Witnessing, Being In Public, Are As Much Part Of The Design And Purpose As Is Being Inside To Eat, Sleep, Make Shoes Or Love Or Music. The Word Citizen Has To Do With Cities, And The Ideal City Is Organized Around Citizenship -- Around Participation In Public Life.

Thinking Is Generally Thought Of As Doing Nothing In A Production - Oriented Society And Doing Nothing Is Hard To Do. It's Best Done By Disguising It As Doing Something And The Something Closest To Doing Nothing Is Walking.