Off the beaten track

Well I tried it last week. It's funny because since we had the idea I've thought about it a lot and once squeezed through a hole in a fence into someones garden but didn't have a camera or a phone so this was a conceptual of the beaten track and I found a lawn so it wasn't very good really.

My beaten track is the cemetery at the moment - twice a day I walk the dog always the same way around always around the outside path. Kim calls it my OCD route as I make her run it. I'm not sure why I do this probably because I now use my dog walking time for thinking Niezche said that he had never had a good idea when he wasn't walking and my time in the cemetery is my thinking time. Although I now have a posse of Libyan kids who follow me around throwing sticks for the dog. I have to be nice to them as everybody else tells them to bugger off but there are about nine of them now and it's getting a bit much.

So here is the first picture - the camera on my new phone is shit compared to my

old one and like I said before I think I may start using my SLR and really thinking about the quality of the pictures rather than just taking a snap - I think this may be important and part of a ritual - not going out to take a picture but going out to record a moment, a thought , in the best way I can rather than on my shitty phone. So here is the fork I've never been down this bit before as it's a dead end so I wondered down actively looking for something to photograph and found a grave which was recently dressed but the weather hard aged everything down. It felt funny as you notice the graves which are kept well on the main drag - like it's a outward sign that people still care but it felt different to see these things on a grave which was on it's own like the stuff was more personal connecting the living to the dead or like the tree in the forest which nobody sees or hears fall. It almost feels like it may be wrong to post the picture - perhaps I have no right to make the private public - perhaps . Then I felt quite smug with myself and started to walk home really pleased in the idea and excited and reminded of years of thinking about setting up Dogmas in my arts practise and I thought about you saying if I set up rules you would break them. I thought about this and that you could do this idea and just pretend you had come across something and if it was more interesting than what you actually came across maybe this would be better art . Then on the way back I came across a 7 foot tall fire juggler which made me think about big fish so I photographed him to prove I had not made him up and then wondered if I could get him to juggle his things at the end of my transgression from the OCD cemetery route. So I suppose we need a comment on the integrity of a dogma and how important it is and how we convey this idea or concept in whatever we produce. For me the idea is to get the "Audience" to start to make the digression and change the way they look at things - the product which would perhaps be a website or book is the vehicle to engage people in doing this but most importantly to alter the lens they look at the world - or at least their journey to work through. I think if we could make this work it would be a good piece of art - we are not their yet maybe we have to do fifty digressions and edit them before it becomes a workable idea I'm not sure but I do like it. I'm thinking more and more about the idea of mapping a point in time when a decision was made and it makes me think about the scientific proof that even flies have freewill which I read about in new scientist last year.