from tube to bike and back
after tube-induced hot-sweats (pollution! bodies! mild claustrophopia!), and toe-numbing walking walking absolutely everywhere (great for the first week but when carrying a laptop to and fro, and that the darkness sets in at 4.30pm....), finding this bicylce just made my day, nay, month!

the first 10 minutes of cruising the streets at 9.00am reminded me how much perception is framed and produced by different forms of movement - that the apparatus' with which we engage with in our worldly negotiations enables particular forms of experience....and so this first ever-london-bike ride felt incredibly fresh....my feeling towards london transformed in that very moment - and space expanded almost infinitely! squirming up and down between ground level and tube level produces such a delirium (you don't really quite understand where you are in the city - which in itself is an amazing spatial experience because it shatters the city into a million fragments, boroughs, precincts, circuses......). So it is so good to now have the option of being in an extremely decentered city - one perpetually broken in the action of jumping from precinct to precinct via underground-tube-ness, or now, having a more flowing, continuous experience enabled by the power of the wheel - yeah!

and speaking of spatial experience and apparatus' of negotiation, my journey from whitechapel, north-west towards kingscross, bound for the london canal museum -- for all its display lameness, was worth it for this one archival photo:


which begins my research into the canals of london, especially the regents canal which cuts very close to the showroom gallery where i'll be exhibiting in march - as i plan to build and navigate a raft down it - more on this soon....