What does this quote mean: Walking is the constant, the art material is the variable?
It’s the name of a show by Hamish Fulton, sometimes known as the “walking artist”. Hamish Fulton’s most recent show, “Walking is the Constant, the Art Medium is the Variable,” comprised understated unique black-and-white photographs from the various journeys he has made during the last decade, in Europe and Alaska, Iceland, Japan, and Nepal. In these photo-texts, the aesthetic of the particular–the height of a natural form, its remoteness from the photographer, its overwhelming force–can only obliquely suggest, along with the text that appears below each image, the general experience and the scale of Fulton’s ongoing project. I am guessing it might mean that he views walking as the constant in his life, something he always does; while the views he captures are the variable because they are always changing. But could be wrong! So don’t take my guess as gospel. All the best.
