Author Archives: Frans van Lent
Binoculars
Binoculars On a walk in the forest, I stop at an intersection.
I turn around and, looking through my binoculars,
I imagine myself walking on the path behind me a moment earlier.
Then I turn back and look at the path in front of me,
imagining myself walking there a moment later. Continue reading
The Panorama
Village
Sleeps
I invited friends
to make a ten minute long audio recording
of someone close sleeping.
In editing I superimposed the recordings
as layers into one combined file,
a document of collective intimacy. Continue reading
Binoculars
On a walk in the forest, I stopped at an intersection.
I turned around and, looking through my binoculars,
I imagined myself walking on the path behind me a moment earlier.
Then I turned back again and, looking at the path in front of me,
I imagined myself walking there a moment later. Continue reading
The Virtual Reality
I sit in front of a map and a notebook.
I look at the map and in my mind I follow a path I have walked many times before.
I imagine the walk in real time. I make notes of what I pass, of what I might see and of the directions I follow.
It takes 42 minutes, just as long as it takes me to actually walk the route.