My name is Riley Fulmer and I am a senior Studio Art student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill currently enrolled in Arts 364: The Walking Seminar. I am interested in studying walking as an art form and aesthetic practice. I have an intense passion for art because learning to create it, beginning with drawing, pulled back a veil- completely transforming and clarifying my worldview. Learning to draw, indicatively developing a heightened sense of awareness, empowered me to begin seeing with deliberation rather than passively observing my surroundings. Without art, I would struggle to see life’s grandeur to its full extent. For example, until I learned to see, I hardly wondered or subsequently appreciated flawless crystalline geometries, the linear arrangement of celestial bodies, or how the perfect spiral of a sea shell develops. The more I wonder and observe, the more fascinated I become with nature. Walking as a territorial investigation of art encourages me to consider exciting details in plain sight, but obscured by the fast pace of mundane life. I hope by sharing treasures found only by harnessing “directed serendipity” while walking, I can inspire visitors of my blog to take on their own adventures.
The Art of Walking by Riley Fulmer 