How does the ways in which we converse with colour re-inform our memories of walking?

Can continually changing colour schemes informed and influenced through light, weather, built and natural environment choreograph the ways in which we walk? On my last visit to the city of Auckland, I spent my time walking in and around the city. My attention was drawn towards the coexistance of the grey overcast skies, the dried branch of tress lined on the footpath and the steel coloured buildings. As Massumi notes, experience is ‘produced in context and eternally “insists” on itself, in pushy independence’(2002, p.213). Our experiences of walking are often characterised by our affective responses to composite and complex organisations of colour. These responses often embody, influence, and transform the physical process of walking. They also negotiate with our socio-cultural as well as sensorial registers of these spaces in producing a variety of narratives. If we start to revisit these narratives through the language of colour newer, more-than-human perspectives on the experience of walking may begin to unfold.

References

Massumi, B. (2002b) ‘Too-Blue: Color-Patch for an Expanded Empiricism’, in Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, pp. 208–56. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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