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‘Sploring – 30/8/03
A Drift with Daniel, Rachel, Stephen and Video
What I found remarkable about this – watchingthe uncut video of 80 minutes of drift - is theshape:Explaining to Rachel and Daniel that at each junction they would take it in turns to choose thedirection. Their sprinting off down Howell Road.And then once we’re into less familiar territorythey slow for a half hour exploration of thetexture of a railway bridge wall and some shrubs.Then the focus switches to the gutters and the remains of lots of  balloons. Then we slip into the rail system and finally loop back through the Hoopern Valley path as the rains begin to fall.Stephen edited it for a talk to artists in Cornwall.In December Rachel and I walked some of the drift again and thenwe peeled away – through a multi-storey car  park, up the ramp to the side of which a hidden piece of roof over a stairwell has been stenciledwith footprints, one inner wall of which iscovered by large, resonant, primary shapes.
Rachel: It feels like they’re giants and they’regoing to run over you.Me: Is that what it looks like?
 
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Rachel: That’s what it feels like.
The Z World in the city wall found on the February DRIFT we re-found in December. It still has the Z Smarties top I found and putinside it; a small repository for fragments of its own sculpture of limitations. The Z World of agricultural decay found on the Buller Walk was a working model of the velocity of awaiting botany too quick for animals. Accessiblevia disruptions. These Z Worlds can be highconcentration zones on a forthcomingmythogeographical ‘map’, a hybrid of place andkey.
Stephen: Do you… Daniel, I’m going tointerview you now…Daniel: I wanna see…Stephen: Have you seen TV interviews, like on the news…Phil: Stephen’s going to talk to you… you talk to Stephen…Stephen: Daniel, do you go on many walks like this…Rachel: No. He doesn’t.Stephen: … where you choose different directions to go in… just randomly?
 
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Rachel: Not normally. He’s only done it once.Stephen: Have you done it much, Rachel?Rachel: Yeh, lots.Daniel: Ow!Phil: You watch the camera…Stephen: What … where have youended up before?Rachel: Um…Daniel: That’s Daniel?Rachel: One time we ended up atthe student part…Daniel: I want to see!Rachel: Where the students were…Stephen: In this type of walking does it really matter whereyou end up?Rachel: No.Stephen: What’s it about then?
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