2017
During the five months living in Prague, I neighbored a power plant chimney. The red-and-white top of the towering structure was very eye-catching. Wherever I went, I always saw it hidden in the cityscape. The chimney gradually became hard to ignore, like a stalker standing where I departed and watching my movement. I thereby named it Piper the Stalker. Driven by my curiosity about how far Piper could see, I started walking from Piper’s location toward the periphery of the area until I could only see the red-and-white top of the chimney and marked it on Google My Maps.
After a few walks, the range coming out was unexpected. I had imagined that the coverage would be much closer to a circle because of Prague’s flat topography; however, the subtle topographical heterogeneity and the building distribution significantly affected the result. The act of walking reshaped my perception of the city and led me to places excluded by my “habitual axes.”
