This photo.
Love-struck teenagers in a boat on the Seine, with a faint Eiffel Tower in the twilight distance, July 1989, National Geographic.
It Doesn’t Matter, Katerina Šedá.
When Katerina Šedá’s 76-year-old grandmother, Jana, fell into andepression after her husband died, refusing to cook, bathe or leave the house, the young Czech artist devised a series of exercises to encourage her grandmother to do something other than watch television. Šedá persuaded Jana to try to recollect every item sold in the hardware shop she managed in Brno for 33 years. Then she urged her to draw them. The resultant collection of drawings – shaky, rudimentary black shapes depicting sets of everyday items like screwdrivers, pliers and paintbrushes, each labelled in Czech in Jana’s unsteady handwriting – covered the walls of the gallery space and filled three itemized archival boxes.
This photo provides an example of a ‘desire path’ (desire line or social trail), a route developed by erosion from humans (or other animals) walking along it. Notice how it diverges from those implemented as a result of centralized urban planning.
Read more or check out some more desire paths at the Flickr pool
(Source: mattermedia)
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