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I went to the library yesterday, as I have many times. I had a meeting on the second floor. I went up a stairwell that is normally one of the first options available to me upon entering the building. I had always neglected it. When I looked around, I was able to dispel my initial disorientation. I knew exactly where I was, I simply had never gone up that way.
Today I was also learning new subjects. What I realized soon was that it was a subject I could approach and know, but the language that they were using to describe it wasn’t the technical language that I was used to. I was initially intimidated and disoriented, but soon knew where I was.
I had a similar feeling with both of these events.
I thought about traversing a space. How far could I go if I did a kind of exhaustive walk of the universe? If I encountered a door in my environment, I would be forced to venture into it.
I recall that guy who was walking all of the streets in NYC. But what if he was forced into every single door that he encountered as an extra challenge.
There are neglected “hidden in plain sight” spaces and doorways in my surroundings. Even after years on the same path, you will stumble upon these. They are unexplored, to some extent, because of your goals towards a task. My goal is general not complete exploration of a space, but to get home quickly.
Hidden Handle
I recall this thought I had growing up. It was imagining a door in the basement. But the door wasn’t always visible. To access it required you to turn off the lights and walk down. You would touch the wall, and guided by cold you’d now find a metal handle in the wall.
Looking for subjective untraversed
If I went really cognizant of these unexplored spaces, on a routine day like a commute, could I trace and track them to see the world differently. I feel this is tapped into the whole urban fantasy genre.
But thinking of this
Also for the above meeting, the person I was meeting asked where in my originating building I was normally. My office is tucked away. Generally a single door is what opens the space and it appears to be private.
Photographs
rel:Holes
When I review photographs that I post, in the majority there tends to be some hole, or door. Maybe it is just the type of travel/documentary simple photographs that I take that invites this. Like below, you see the hole? I can find a single point of dominant Attention in many of them, which made them seem abstractly identical even though the locations and contexts were different.
