Walking : A Retraced Map of Walks Executed in Response to Grief
Stills from the 5min-long video walkthrough
For my final project, I continued work I had set down a couple months prior. Early in January, I was confronted with multiple events which caused me to grieve simultaneously. As a way to process those events, I walked roughly three hours a day over the course of a week. Because those walks felt so significant in the reclaiming of physical and mental space, I had the foresight to record my path over the course of that week. I kept track of my routes and their timestamps, how long they took me, how long I stayed in any given place.
To create this 3D experience, I decided to use Photogrammetry to reconstruct physical spaces virtually. I specifically chose to work with footage from Google walkthroughs, because that is a theme I have been consistently going back to and interested in working with. How does digital space retain physical events? How does one make a digital landscape emotional and relatable?
Still of the keyframing of the walks in Google Earth Studio
Recorded Path Through Photogrammetry in PhotoScan Pro
Rendering Time
I had originally planned on the video playing for a whole week synched to the real time, which unfortunately was not achieved in this time frame due to the intense rendering time. I might revisit this concept later (outside of the context of grief) and develop a more fleshed out video piece.
I’m also going to link to my website documentation for my documentary Dedications I-V, which I largely made in this class (even though I never used it as a class deliverable).