AUTHOR'S NOTE
This artistic project was born in my spare time, developed independently in the open and evolved at the pace of a turtle. Countless public drafts and serene long walks have shaped it into its present state, akin to a therapeutic exercise.
The project's lines of code first appeared online in November 2017, four months after the summer debut of walking and photographing.
From the beginning, the creative process was intuitively, leisurely or swiftly occurring from time to time, offline or online. Until, being finalized retrospectively with an emphasis on narrative writing, visual storytelling, book formatting, and date-timestamps.
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<p>Hello, I'm very glad that you have discovered A WALK≡A DAY !
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<p><strong>INTRO</strong>
<br>Born out of simple boredom and burst of creativity, A WALK≡A DAY is a black and white visual arts project.
<br>Since then, every long walk ends with a collection of b&w photos snapped on-the-go by using a smartphone camera.
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<p><strong>WHEN?</strong>
<br>The first image was published on Instagram (@all.day.walking) on July 19th, 2017.
<br>At least one picture is (or should be) posted on a daily basis.
<br>This art project's lifespan is 5 years.</p>
<p><strong>WHY?</strong>
<br>A single motivating quote essentially inspired the creation of the project : "The Sun is up and running, everyday, for you."
<br>In a global trend of fast-paced urbanization, generations of kids are growing without a sense of curiosity of their surroundings and adventurous drive in the unfamiliar landscapes.
<br>Instagram, with 400 million daily active users, was selected as the most compelling internet platform to host such a street photography gallery that would target millenials and inspire them to creatively join a well-being movement.
<br>Taking long walks and snapping lots of pictures along the way both became complimentary in my regular young adult life and I can't refrain from recommending this kind of endeavor to other fellow youngsters.
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<p><strong>HOW?</strong>
<br>Images are shared in black and white format with a white wide frame.
<br>All pics are taken from an Android phone and later, edited in Snapseed.
<br>The hashtag #awalkaday is attached to every post and can be clicked on to view in bulk similar posts shared by the Instagram community.
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<p><strong>WHERE?</strong>
<br>Photos are mostly taken at any time of the day from the streets and hidden alleys of Western Europe.
<br>I'm currently based in Belgium.
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<p><strong>WHO?</strong>
<br>The person behind the #awalkaday art movement is Chris-Armel (@daqhris).
<br>He was born in Burundi and have previously traveled to Eastern Asia, Middle East and North Africa.
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</html>As any reader can see, the A WALK≡A DAY visual art project took more than the five years predicted at the onset before being completed.
The informative page, named FAQ | A WALK≡A DAY, was eventually migrated away from a personal site to an independent project on GitHub where all the sites built under the umbrella of awalkaday found a safe shelter.
The three-bar symbol ≡ , which is synonymous with the two-way street sign ↔, had piqued my interest as an indicator of logical equivalence and the monetary unit of a blockchain currency.
The awalkaday building blocks rebecame the focus of my geeky attention and camera lenses from May 2021 onwards, right after receiving a developer certification from the web coding classes taught at freeCodeCamp.org.
This book poetically features adapted texts from about.awalkaday.art — a single page dating from the project's early days — illustrated with visually evocative awalkaday photographs.
Its pages tell the tale of a human wanderer, portray traces of what was seen, felt, done and lived from an objective perspective, and also hint at what has come to pass during a long-lasting march.
For an accurate time-stamped overview of changes made to the book's drafts and applied via public git commits, please visit the GitHub-hosted open source code repository. A visual chart showing additions and deletions of encoded texts, on a weekly basis over a long time window, is available here.
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