My Tehran Walk (Working Title): A Trial Run

Artefact: What Got Me Thinking

From Domus, Issue March 2007

My aim: walk as continuously as possible to keep moving as much as I can and, while not suspending eve-
ryday tasks, to both limit and be conscious of any engagement with, in particular, men who arent family. I
am my own policeman and my own rebel. I want to explore stopping as an integral a part of walking as
the motion of walking.

My trial-run route was a shorter version of what will be a longer walk. My trial-run walk started from my
home in Acton. I walked to Shepherds Bush and onward as far as Holland Park station. The longer-walk
version will take the same route and continue on to Marble Arch, down Edgware Road, to Paddington, down
Westbourne Grove, to Notting Hill and back via Shepherds Bush to home.

Even for my trial-run walk, I wore my track/walking shoes and cushioned socks. This isnt a flimsy-flip-
flop or thin-sole walk.

No camera. As a writer, I dont observe as closely when I know I could, even hypothetically, take a picture.
Also, to stop for taking photographs would be counter to the ethos of this walk. My intention is to collect an
artefact from everywhere I stop, a business card, price list or menu etc etc.

Storyboard notebook entries will structure the map/record of My Tehran Walk. The ultimate product will
be a short story, which will incorporate the visual artefacts and storyboards and my commentary on them
into the text.